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Sadness Quotes - random


Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.




Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Ivo Andric | Sadness Quotes
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.




Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.


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