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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?




John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.




John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.


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