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Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Rory Gallagher | Sadness Quotes
The man who got me back into the blues.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.




Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.


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