Sadness Quotes - random
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
I’m in mourning for my life.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.