Sadness Quotes - random
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.