Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
I’m in mourning for my life.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.