Sadness Quotes - random
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
The man who got me back into the blues.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.