Sadness Quotes - random
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.