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Sadness Quotes - random


They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
George Bernard Shaw | Sadness Quotes
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Ed Harcourt | Sadness Quotes
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"




John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.


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