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Sadness Quotes - random


Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.




William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Dag Hammarskjold | Sadness Quotes
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.


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