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Sadness Quotes - random


Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?




Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C




Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
George Henry Lewes | Sadness Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.


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