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Sadness Quotes - random


John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
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.
Billy Sunday | Sadness Quotes
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.




King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Bernard Malamud | Sadness Quotes
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.


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