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Sadness Quotes - random


Susie Bright | Sadness Quotes
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.




Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!




Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.


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