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Sadness Quotes - random


A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.




Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Marc Maron | Sadness Quotes
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
David Hume | Sadness Quotes
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.




Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Robert Pollok | Sadness Quotes
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.


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