Sadness Quotes - random
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.