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Sadness Quotes - random


William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.




Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!




Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.


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