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Sadness Quotes - random


Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.




Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Alfred Bunn | Sadness Quotes
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.




Wesley Willis
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.


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