Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.