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Sadness Quotes - random


Arthur Hugh Clough | Sadness Quotes
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.




Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.




Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.


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