Sadness Quotes - random
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.