Sadness Quotes - random
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.