Sadness Quotes - random
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.