Sadness Quotes - random
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Each time we love,
We turn a nearer and a broader mark
To that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.