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Sadness Quotes - random


Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.




George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Thomas Wolfe | Sadness Quotes
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.




Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!


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