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Sadness Quotes - random


Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.




Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Theodore Kaczynski | Sadness Quotes
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.




Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Wilhelm Stekel | Sadness Quotes
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.


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