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Sadness Quotes - random


Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.




Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Joseph Conrad | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.


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