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Sadness Quotes - random


Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.




Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Arthur Symons | Sadness Quotes
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.


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