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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.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.




Alexander Smith
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
John Ray | Sadness Quotes
Misery loves company.




Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.


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