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Sadness Quotes - random


Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.




Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
James Howell | Sadness Quotes
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.




Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.


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