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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.




Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.


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