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Sadness Quotes - random


Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Ray Bradbury
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.




Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
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.
Adoniram Judson Gordon
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.




William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.


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