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Sadness Quotes - random


Matthew Henry | Sadness Quotes
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.




William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Sarada Devi | Sadness Quotes
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Rita Rudner | Sadness Quotes
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.




Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.


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