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Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.




John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Joseph Conrad | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!




Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.


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