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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!




Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Greg Bear
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Thomas Jefferson | Sadness Quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.




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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Luigi Pirandello | Sadness Quotes
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.


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