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Sadness Quotes - random


Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.




Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Gautama Buddha | Sadness Quotes
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.


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