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Sadness Quotes - random


Abraham Lincoln | Sadness Quotes
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.




Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Company in Misery makes it light.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.




Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.


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