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Sadness Quotes - random


Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Paulo Coelho | Sadness Quotes
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.


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