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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!




Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Oscar Wilde | Sadness Quotes
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.




George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.


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