Sadness Quotes - random
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.