Sadness Quotes - random
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
One of the advantages of a great sorrow is that nothing else seems painful.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.