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Sadness Quotes - random


Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.




Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.




Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.


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