Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?