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Sadness Quotes - random


Arthur Hugh Clough | Sadness Quotes
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.




Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
William Congreve | Sadness Quotes
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.




Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
Blaise Pascal
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.


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