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Sadness Quotes - random


William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.




John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Karen Blixen | Sadness Quotes
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
James Jones
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Dag Hammarskjold | Sadness Quotes
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.




Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.


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