Sadness Quotes - random
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Genius is sorrow's child.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
The only cure for grief is action.