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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.




Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Indro Montanelli | Sadness Quotes
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Publilius Syrus | Sadness Quotes
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.




Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
John Adams | Sadness Quotes
Genius is sorrow's child.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.


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