Sadness Quotes - random
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.