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Sadness Quotes - random


Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Jane Austen | Sadness Quotes
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.




William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?


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