Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.