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Sadness Quotes - random


Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?




Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
William Congreve | Sadness Quotes
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.




Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Alexander Smith | Sadness Quotes
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.


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