Sadness Quotes - random
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."