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Sadness Quotes - random


Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.




Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Indro Montanelli | Sadness Quotes
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.




Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.


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