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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.




Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
John Fletcher | Sadness Quotes
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Jane Austen | Sadness Quotes
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.




Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.


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