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Sadness Quotes - random


Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.




Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Jeff Buckley | Sadness Quotes
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.




James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.


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