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Sadness Quotes - random


Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.




John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Wystan Hugh Auden | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.


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