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Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.




Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.




Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.


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