Sadness Quotes - random
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.