Sadness Quotes - random
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.