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Sadness Quotes - random


David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.


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