Sadness Quotes - random
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.