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Sadness Quotes - random


James Thomson | Sadness Quotes
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.




Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Richard Hovey | Sadness Quotes
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.




William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.


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