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Sadness Quotes - random


Thomas Haynes Bayly | Sadness Quotes
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Ivo Andric | Sadness Quotes
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.




Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.


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