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Sadness Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.




Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Joe Hill | Sadness Quotes
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?




Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.


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