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Sadness Quotes - random


Erik Satie | Sadness Quotes
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.




Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!




Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.


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