Tuesday, May 19, 2026 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.




Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Thomas Aquinas | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.




Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact