Sadness Quotes - random
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
I was not always a man of woe.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.