Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
I’m in mourning for my life.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.