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14 Quotes for 'Sadness' in the Database.
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Sadness Quotes
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Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance
sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
Author: Mrs. Anna Letitia Barbauld
Source: Hymns in Prose (XIII)
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Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad,
Because it makes us smile.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XIII, st. 9)
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A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: The Day is Done (st. 3)
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Yet be sad, good brothers,
For, by my faith, it very well becomes you.
Sorrow so royally in you appears
That I will deeply put the fashion on
And wear it in my heart.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at V, ii)
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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not,
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught:
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Source: To a Skylark (st. 18)
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt
you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get
the news to you.
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: Following the Equator (ch. 45)
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'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night IV, l. 676)
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
Author: Margaret Drabble
Source: None
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We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
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There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
Author: John Heyl Vincent
Source: None
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What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
Author: Akhenaton
Source: None
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I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Source: None
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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Author: Eugene Ionesco
Source: None
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
Author: Emile Durkheim
Source: None
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