Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
I was not always a man of woe.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.