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Sadness Quotes - random


Robert Pollok | Sadness Quotes
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.




Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Ivo Andric | Sadness Quotes
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
D. H. Lawrence | Sadness Quotes
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.


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