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Sadness Quotes - random


Euripides | Sadness Quotes
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139




Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
D. H. Lawrence | Sadness Quotes
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.


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