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Sadness Quotes - random


Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.




Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Theodore Kaczynski | Sadness Quotes
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.




Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Thomas Henry Huxley | Sadness Quotes
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."


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