Sadness Quotes - random
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.