Sadness Quotes - random
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
In every pang that rends the heart
The Man of Sorrows had a part.
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.