Sadness Quotes - random
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
The man who got me back into the blues.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."