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Sadness Quotes - random


Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.




Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Saadi | Sadness Quotes
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.


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