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Sadness Quotes - random


The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.




Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.




Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.


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