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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.




Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.


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