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Vanna Bonta | Sadness Quotes
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.




Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.




William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.


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