Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Parking is such street sorrow.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.