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Sadness Quotes - random


Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Benjamin Disraeli | Sadness Quotes
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
William R. Alger | Sadness Quotes
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.




Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Thomas Malory
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.


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