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Sadness Quotes - random


Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.




Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.




William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Albert Schweitzer | Sadness Quotes
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.


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