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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Britney Spears | Sadness Quotes
Saying no is so heartbreaking.




Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.


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