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Sadness Quotes - random


Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
John Pomfret | Sadness Quotes
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.




Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.


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