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Sadness Quotes - random


Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010




Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.


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