Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.