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Sadness Quotes - random


Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!




Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010




Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Joseph Conrad | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?


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