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Sadness Quotes - random


Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.




William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
John Pomfret | Sadness Quotes
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.




Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.


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