Sadness Quotes - random
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
The only cure for grief is action.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.