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Sadness Quotes - random


William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Theodore Dreiser | Sadness Quotes
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.


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