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Sadness Quotes - random


Edith Wharton | Sadness Quotes
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.




William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Saadi | Sadness Quotes
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?


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