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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.




Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.


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