Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.