Sadness Quotes - random
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.