Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.