Quotes on Doleful

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

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.

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!