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Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...




D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.




Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.


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