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Sadness Quotes - random


Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.




Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.


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