Sadness Quotes - random
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
There is no logic to grief.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.