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Sadness Quotes - random


Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.




William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.




William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Susie Bright
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.


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