Sadness Quotes - random
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.