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Sadness Quotes - random


A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?




Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Paulo Coelho | Sadness Quotes
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Jonathan Katz | Sadness Quotes
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


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