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Sadness Quotes - random


Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).




Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.




Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Heinrich Heine | Sadness Quotes
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.


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