Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
It's such a sadness that you think you've seen a film on your fucking telephone. Get real.
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.