Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.