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Sadness Quotes - random


Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.




Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.




Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Harry S. Truman | Sadness Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.


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