Sadness Quotes - random
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Genius is sorrow's child.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.