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Sadness Quotes - random


Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.




Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.




Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.


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