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Sadness Quotes - random


Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Paul Eluard | Sadness Quotes
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.




Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
John Ray
Misery loves company.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
David Levy | Sadness Quotes
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.


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