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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Erik Satie | Sadness Quotes
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.




Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Rita Rudner | Sadness Quotes
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.


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