Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
I was not always a man of woe.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.