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Sadness Quotes - random


William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Patricia A. McKillip
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Virgil | Sadness Quotes
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.




Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Jane Addams | Sadness Quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.


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