Sadness Quotes - random
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
I was not always a man of woe.
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.