Sadness Quotes - random
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Company in Misery makes it light.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.