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Sadness Quotes - random


John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.




Jesus Christ
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Publilius Syrus | Sadness Quotes
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.




Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136


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