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John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!




John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.




Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Britney Spears | Sadness Quotes
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...


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