Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Genius is sorrow's child.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.