Mournful Quotes
66 quotes by 57 authors
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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…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.
— Lydia M. Child
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I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up beneath its mountain load; redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon…
— Charles Wesley
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Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day: Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away, To sleep! to sleep! Sleep, mournful heart, and let…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
— Samuel Johnson
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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…
— Plutarch
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Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered…
— Plutarch
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Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling…
— Romain Rolland
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
— Hector Berlioz
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I stood checked for a moment - awe, not fear, fell upon me - and whist I stood, a solemn wind began to blow, the…
— Thomas de Quincey
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If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which…
— Richard Paul Evans
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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My silks and fine array, My smiles and languished air, By love are driv'n away And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my…
— William Blake
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Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is…
— Annie Dillard
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I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent,…
— Winston Churchill
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Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk
— G-Dragon
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Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and…
— Peter Ho Davies
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
Who Wrote These Mournful Quotes
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