Sadness Quotes - random
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.