Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.