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Sadness Quotes - random


Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.




Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Joseph Schumpeter | Sadness Quotes
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Eugene Ionesco | Sadness Quotes
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.




Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Edward Payson | Sadness Quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.


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