Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
I giovani sentono i dolori pi? acerbamente dei vecchi: per questi l'uscita di sicurezza ? pi? vicina.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.