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Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.




Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Dag Hammarskjold | Sadness Quotes
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.




Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.


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