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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!




Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.


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