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Sadness Quotes - random


John Fletcher | Sadness Quotes
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.




John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.


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