Sadness Quotes - random
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.