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Sadness Quotes - random


One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.




Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
John Hay | Sadness Quotes
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.




Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Bion of Borysthenes | Sadness Quotes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.


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