Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.