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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Herrick | Sadness Quotes
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.




Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!


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