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Sadness Quotes - random


Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.




John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.


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