Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.