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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Wesley Willis | Sadness Quotes
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.


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