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Sadness Quotes - random


Simon Bolivar | Sadness Quotes
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."




John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Vittorio Alfieri | Sadness Quotes
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.




William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.


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