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Sadness Quotes - random


Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.




Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.




Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Ben Jonson | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.


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