Sunday, May 10, 2026 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Sadness Quotes - random


Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.




Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.


© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact