Sadness Quotes - random
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.