Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.