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Sadness Quotes - random


Marshall McLuhan | Sadness Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.




Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Thomas Tusser | Sadness Quotes
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.




Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Franz Liszt | Sadness Quotes
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
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.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.


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