Sadness Quotes - random
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
The man who got me back into the blues.