Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.