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Sadness Quotes - random


Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.




Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Edith Wharton | Sadness Quotes
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
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.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.


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