Sadness Quotes - random
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.