Top 3 Doleful Quotes - Quoted Daily

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

Depressing, Hopeless, Doleful

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

Hope, Peace, Doleful

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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.

Matter, Ballads, Doleful

William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “Taming of the shrew. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors”, p.267

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