Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.