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Sadness Quotes - random


Norman Borlaug | Sadness Quotes
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.




John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
George Wither | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.




Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.


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