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Sadness Quotes - random


Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...




Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Rutherford B. Hayes | Sadness Quotes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.




John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.


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