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Sadness Quotes - random


Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.




Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Fyodor Dostoevsky | Sadness Quotes
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.




Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
John Pomfret | Sadness Quotes
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
William Hazlitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.


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