Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.