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Sadness Quotes - random


Arthur Hugh Clough | Sadness Quotes
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.




Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Jane Austen | Sadness Quotes
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.


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