Thursday, March 12, 2026 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.




Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Albert Schweitzer | Sadness Quotes
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.




Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Edward Young | Sadness Quotes
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Oliver Goldsmith
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact