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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.




Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.




Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.


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