Sadness Quotes - random
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Long life hath long Misery.