Sadness Quotes - page 6
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
I was not always a man of woe.
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.