Sadness Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
I was not always a man of woe.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.