Sadness Quotes - random
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.