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Sadness Quotes - random


Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...




Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.




Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
John Pomfret | Sadness Quotes
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.


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