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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Herb Caen | Sadness Quotes
Parking is such street sorrow.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.




Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.


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