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Sadness Quotes - random


Fyodor Dostoevsky | Sadness Quotes
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.




John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Thomas Otway | Sadness Quotes
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Henry Howard | Sadness Quotes
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.


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