Sadness Quotes - random
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)