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Sadness Quotes - random


Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.




Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.




Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.


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