Sadness Quotes - random
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.