Sadness Quotes - random
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
I was not always a man of woe.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
There is no logic to grief.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.