Saturday, December 13, 2025 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Walter Scott | Sadness Quotes
I was not always a man of woe.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.




Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
John Dryden
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Emo Philips | Sadness Quotes
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Pythagoras | Sadness Quotes
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.




George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Thomas Tusser | Sadness Quotes
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact