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Sadness Quotes - random


Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Harry S. Truman | Sadness Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.




Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Kate Bush | Sadness Quotes
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.


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