Sadness Quotes - random
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.