Sadness Quotes - random
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Parking is such street sorrow.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.