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Sadness Quotes - random


Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."




A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Tori Amos | Sadness Quotes
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.




Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Sri Yukteswar Giri
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.


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