Sadness Quotes - random
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
The soft complaining flute,
In dying notes, discovers
The woes of hopeless lovers.
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.