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Sadness Quotes - random


John Hay | Sadness Quotes
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.




John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.




King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.


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