Sadness Quotes - random
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.