Sadness Quotes - random
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.