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Sadness Quotes - random


Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.




Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Jeff Buckley | Sadness Quotes
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.


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