Sadness Quotes - random
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.