Sadness Quotes - random
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!