Sadness Quotes - random
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.