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Sadness Quotes - random


Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.




Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Jean Ingelow | Sadness Quotes
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Emily Dickinson
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.




Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Vernon Howard
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.


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