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Sadness Quotes - random


Avner Strauss | Sadness Quotes
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.




Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Thomas Henry Huxley | Sadness Quotes
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.




Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.


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