Sadness Quotes - random
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Genius is sorrow's child.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Lord of himself,that heritage of woe!
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.