Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night restless they turn on beds of sorrow in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
Sadness Quotes (2451 Quotes)
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Is there no hope The sick man said, the silent doctor shook his head, and took his leave with signs of sorrow, despairing of his fee tomorrow.
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him.
My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
You should assume that as charitable as it is, you have total liability for these individuals, in the same way as if a stranger came to your house just invited for a dinner party. If they slipped and fell, you're going to be liable for them. You do not enjoy any immunity from liability. It's a sad statement, but that's the world we live in today.
I'm sad. I went up to him after the game and I almost started crying because I feel bad for him. Ray's done a lot of things over the years, and he really stepped up this year, in particular, and showed a lot of senior leadership. I thank him for everything he's done for me.
A still small voice spake unto me, Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be'
I've really enjoyed being the owner of the Trail Blazers. I've tried hard to bring the city a championship. Now we are in a tough rebuilding process with a broken financial model. We have asked for help in fixing it. If I have to sell the team or if it can't continue, that will be sad.
When the True Guru is merciful, you will never grieve. When the True Guru is merciful, you will know no pain.
When my coach told me I was drafted I was really excited. It's a chance for me to keep doing what I love best. Losing out on the Olympics was sad, not just for me, but for a lot of little girls out there playing softball. That was always a goal of mine. That's life, I have to move on with this chance.
And I return to the coldness of this defying human nature, to the impertinence with which the losers of the Sacred Self clime to our sorts of social positions thinking that there they will find their peace, but they are completely wrong. The more they climb, the more they will be confused and miserable because happiness is a mirage of this defying world. No matter how much you gain and what social positions you would had, they are all vanity of the vanities, they are all a smoke caught in our fists or a cry embraced, because they all become immediately a normality and then a boring thus completing the misery, but especially the vanity that surrounds this world where everything is built to fall, where everything is an Illusion of our Life, where the true meaning is the nonsense, and the true Truth is precisely the Untruth. Then what is better for man Is it to kill himself
At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, All the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, Everything was transformed and enchanted, everything made sense.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
It's just a sad situation all the way around. I don't think my son intentionally meant to hurt Ms. Geiger.
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.
Now were the Desolation fain to stamp
The congealed Spirit of man into the pit,
Save that, unquenchable because unlit,
The Love of God burns steady, like a Lamp.
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
I don't like it when people on the street say ''smile'' or ''cheer up.'' It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
It's definitely sad. I've played four years here. And it's especially sad to go out on a loss.
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
How small an selfish is sorrow. But it bangs one about until one is senseless. (letter to Edith Sitwell, shortly after the death of George VI)
He is now misleading the world's public, and I find that sad, wrong and frankly, a touch dangerous,
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
Having gone through all of this, I feel in some ways calmer now. It's strange, but sad. I think I'll always be sad.
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Well what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
If you have that slump the best players in baseball are the ones who get out of those slumps instead of the guy who wallows in misery forever.
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.
It's really sad. He was a young kid trying to do what we're all doing. Play football.
You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy. (E(lwyn)
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
Consumer spending had been in decline before this awful tragedy happened. Now comes this additional damper, ... Considering we are living in state of shock, sorrow and sadness, we really can't expect people to just go out on wild shopping binges.
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
I found a face of anguish greeting me.
You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.
I was tormented. Fear and trembling. And a sense of doom. A literal belief in hell. Hell for eternity. With devils chasing you for eternity with pitchforks. I trembled. I couldn't go to sleep for fear I might die and wake up in hell. I was in agony.
The mother mourns, but does not fail,
Her courage and her love prevail
O'er sorrow, and her spirit hears
The promise of triumphant years.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
It is a sad, sad situation to be in this courtroom in this country hearing a prosecutor saying to a jury that one of the things he relies upon is that Mr. Thomas thought about something.
Surely they who believe and do good deeds and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate they shall have their reward from their Lord, and they shall have no fear, nor shall they grieve. (The Cow 2.277)
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.