Sadness Quotes - random
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
I was not always a man of woe.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.