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Sadness Quotes - random


Solomon | Sadness Quotes
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Hannah More | Sadness Quotes
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.


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