Sadness Quotes - random
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.