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Sadness Quotes - random


Joe Hill | Sadness Quotes
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.




Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Men die but sorrow never dies.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Jean de La Bruyere
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.


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