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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.




Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.


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