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Sadness Quotes - random


Hannah More | Sadness Quotes
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.


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