Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.