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Sadness Quotes - random


John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.




D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Jane Addams | Sadness Quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.


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