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Sadness Quotes - random


Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.




Herb Caen
Parking is such street sorrow.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.




Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
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.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."


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