Sadness Quotes - page 5
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.