Sadness Quotes - random
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
In all the silent manliness of grief.
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.