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Sadness Quotes - random


Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.




Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.




Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Dag Hammarskjold | Sadness Quotes
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.


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