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Sadness Quotes - random


William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.




Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Rita Rudner | Sadness Quotes
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.


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