Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
The only cure for grief is action.