Sadness Quotes - random
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.