Sadness Quotes - random
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
I’m in mourning for my life.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.