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Sadness Quotes - random


Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.




Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Edith Wharton | Sadness Quotes
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Ivo Andric | Sadness Quotes
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.




Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.


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