Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.