Doleful Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
— Saint Augustine
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When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
— William Shakespeare
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The days are cold, the nights are long, The North wind sings a doleful song; Then hush again upon my breast; All merry things are…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'
— Gore Vidal
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I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.
— William Shakespeare
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They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.
— Thomas Beecham
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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will…
— Charlotte Bronte
Who Wrote These Doleful Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 7 Doleful Quotes as follows: