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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Anthony Burgess | Sadness Quotes
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.




John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.


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