Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...