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Sadness Quotes - random


John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.




Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.




Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Bion of Borysthenes | Sadness Quotes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.


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