Sadness Quotes - random
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
In all the silent manliness of grief.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.