Sadness Quotes - random
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.