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Sadness Quotes - random


Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.




Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.




Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.


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