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Sadness Quotes - random


Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.




Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Abraham Lincoln | Sadness Quotes
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?




William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!


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