Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.