Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home… — John Addington Symonds Copy Share Image
