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Sadness Quotes - random


Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.




Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Rory Gallagher | Sadness Quotes
The man who got me back into the blues.




John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Jacques Derrida | Sadness Quotes
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.


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