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Sadness Quotes - random


William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!




Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.




Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.


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