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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.




Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.




Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Virgil | Sadness Quotes
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.


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