Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!