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Sadness Quotes - random


Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Madonna
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Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
John Updike | Sadness Quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.


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