Sadness Quotes - random
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.