Sadness Quotes - random
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."