Quotes of Sadness - somelinesforyou

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Patch grief with proverbs. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you. ”

- Bible

“ Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. ”

- John Pearson

“ When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. ”

- Jean Ingelow

“ Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. ”

- A.J. Cronin

“ Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. ”

- Georges Simenon

“ Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ”

- Don Herold

“ In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise how would you know when you're happy? ”

- Leslie Caron

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ”

- John Keats

“ It is with great sadness that I have to leave the cast of 'High Society' as I am suffering from Epstein Barr Virus (Glandular Fever) which I first fell ill with last year. ”

- Jerry Hall

“ Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow. ”

- George Eliot

“ Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. ”

- Seneca

“ Every one can master a grief but he that has it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it. ”

- Talmud

“ There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“ The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ”

- Carl Jung

“ To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind. ”

- John Keats

“ Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy. ”

- C. Fitzhugh
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