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Sadness Quotes - random


Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.




Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.




Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
George Henry Lewes | Sadness Quotes
The only cure for grief is action.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!


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