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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!




Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.


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