Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.