Quotes of Mournful - somelinesforyou

“ The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy. ”

- Peggy Noonan

“ The past is a funeral gone by. ”

- Sir Edmund Gosse

“ Smile, even if it's a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile. ”

- Tom Gates

“ Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ Sadness is a state of sin. ”

- Andre Gide

“ No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I never saw sad men who lookedWith such a wistful eyeUpon that little tent of blueWe prisoners called the sky. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. ”

- Unknown

“ He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ When at the close of each sad, sorrowing day, Fancy restores what vengeance snatch'd away. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. ”

- Thomas Tusser

“ What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Sadness and gladness succeed each other. ”

- Unknown

“ Sadness and gladness succeed each other. ”

- Unknown

“ They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. ”

- Andre Gide

“ She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance. ”

- P. D. James

“ Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. ”

- Edgar Allan Poe

“ Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. ”

- Plutarch

“ Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ The winner persistently programs his pluses; the loser mournfully magnifies his minuses. ”

- William A. Ward

“ This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ”

- Brigitte Bardot

“ Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. ”

- Emily Bronte

“ Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. ”

- Bertolt Brecht

“ Who goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. ”

- Unknown
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