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Sadness Quotes - random


Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.




Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.


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