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Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.




Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.




Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.


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