Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.