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Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Joanna Baillie | Sadness Quotes
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.


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