Thursday, December 25, 2025 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.




Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




Dante Alighieri
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Madonna
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
George Ade | Sadness Quotes
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Julian of Norwich
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Thomas Otway
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact