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Sadness Quotes - random


Jonathan Katz | Sadness Quotes
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
George Henry Lewes | Sadness Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.




Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.


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