Sadness Quotes - random
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Long life hath long Misery.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.