Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.