Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.