Sadness Quotes - random
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
There is no logic to grief.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!