Sadness Quotes - random
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.