Sadness Quotes - random
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
I was not always a man of woe.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.