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Sadness Quotes - random


John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.




Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.




Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.


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