Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
The only cure for grief is action.
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Long life hath long Misery.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.