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Sadness Quotes - random


Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.




John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Julian of Norwich | Sadness Quotes
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.


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