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Sadness Quotes - random


Bernard Malamud | Sadness Quotes
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.




Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Simon Bolivar | Sadness Quotes
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.




William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.


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