Wednesday, May 06, 2026 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Sadness Quotes - random


Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.




Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.




Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Menander | Sadness Quotes
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact