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Sadness Quotes - random


John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.




Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Robert Pollok | Sadness Quotes
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.


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