Sadness Quotes - random
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.