Sadness Quotes - page 4
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.