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Sadness Quotes - random


Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.




Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Jesus Christ | Sadness Quotes
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.




Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.


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