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Sadness Quotes - random


Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.




Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.




Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!


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