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Sadness Quotes - random


John Milton | Sadness Quotes
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.




Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?




Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.


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