Sadness Quotes - random
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.