Sadness Quotes - random
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Company in Misery makes it light.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.