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Sadness Quotes - random


George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!




Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.




Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)


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