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Sadness Quotes - random


George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.




William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.




Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Thomas Tusser | Sadness Quotes
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


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