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Sadness Quotes - random


Joseph Schumpeter | Sadness Quotes
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.




Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Abraham Lincoln | Sadness Quotes
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.




Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.


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