Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
I was not always a man of woe.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.