Sadness Quotes - random
In all the silent manliness of grief.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.