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Sadness Quotes - random


The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.




Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Hannah More | Sadness Quotes
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.




Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.


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