Best Doleful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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.”

Ifs Wells Matter Pleasant Ballads Pleasant Things Doleful

Book:Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors

Source: Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors

“They are quite hopeless - drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.”

Critics Hopeless Depressing Drooling Doleful

Author:Thomas Beecham

“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.”

Ends Light Sides Darkness Hell Sorrow Sight Rounds Horrible Flames Torture Visible Regions Shade Woe Dungeons Furnaces Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Doleful

Author:John Milton

“Straight is the way to Acheron, Whether the spirit's race is run From Athens or from Meroe: Weep not, far from home to die; The wind doth blow in every sky That wafts us to that doleful sea.”

Way Home Running Spirit Dies Heaven Race Sea Sky Wind Blow Athens Doleful

Book:Miscellanies

Source: Miscellanies

“Sorrow, like a heavy ringing bell, once set on ringing, with its own weight goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell.”

Littles Grief Sorrow Weight Heavy Rings Bells Doleful

Author:William Shakespeare

“Every man is occasionally visited by the suspicion that the planet on which he is riding is not really going anywhere; that the Force which controls its measured eccentricities hasn't got anything special in mind. If he broods on this somber theme long enough he gets the doleful idea that the laughing children on a merry-go-round or the thin, fine hands of a lady's watch are revolving more purposely than he is.”

Source: Writings and Drawings

“Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.”

Light Darkness Flames Visible Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Doleful Visible Light

Author:John Milton

“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 seem!”

Ifs Should Doe Seems Fine Summer Spring Sunshine Autumn Absent Fine Day Spring Summer Doleful

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.”

Hope Peace Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Doleful

Author:John Milton

“Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?”

Men Mean Made Desire Suffering Experience Doleful

Book:The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint

Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint

“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.”

Mind Heart Helping Sound Grief Wounds Memorable Silver Dump Redress Doleful

Author:William Shakespeare

“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 now at rest, Save thee, my pretty love!”

Long Night Song Wind Cold Thee Breasts Merry Good Night Hush North Wind Doleful

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“You hear all this whining going on, "Where are our great writers?" The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?”

Feels Might Reader Investing Gore Great Writers Whining Doleful

Author:Gore Vidal