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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Ed Harcourt | Sadness Quotes
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.




Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
David Lynch
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.


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