Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The only cure for grief is action.
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.