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Sadness Quotes - random


Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.




Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.




Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Avner Strauss | Sadness Quotes
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.


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