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Sadness Quotes - random


John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
William Shakespeare | Sadness Quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
Madame Swetchine | Sadness Quotes
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.




Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
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.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.


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