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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.




Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.


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