Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.