Sadness Quotes - random
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.