Best Mournful Sayings
66 Mournful quotes by 57 unique authors
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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do.
— Margaret Atwood
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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a…
— Heinrich Heine
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I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and…
— Mark Twain
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Ziri's soul felt like the high roaming wind of the Adelphas Mountains and the beat of stormhunters' wings, like the beautiful, mournful, eternal song of…
— Laini Taylor
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It was like a dam of musical critique had broken. Imasu turned on him with eyes that flashed instead of shining. "It is worse than…
— Cassandra Clare
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Now there’s us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it’s ours). And the music has to fit the vision as…
— Joss Whedon
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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
— Franz Liszt
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Sing it not in mournful numbers.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of…
— Teju Cole
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The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.
— David Mallet
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And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
— Pierre Loti
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O wicked and evil knights thus shine within the pillars of ivory silk and wine; disgrace O slithering snake of thirsty greed and slaves of…
— Johnny Luckett
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd
— Samuel Johnson
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People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out.…
— Daniel Radcliffe
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