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Sadness Quotes - random


Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.




Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
E. M. Forster | Sadness Quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Emo Philips | Sadness Quotes
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.




Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Charles Dickens | Sadness Quotes
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.


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