Quotes about sadness

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn

Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world...

He had wished to convince himself that Comarre was evil. Now he knew that it was not. There would always be, even in Utopia, some for whom the world had nothing to offer but sorrow and disillusion.

No quiero para mí tantas desgracias.

No quiero continuar de raíz y de tumba,

de subterráneo solo, de bodega con muertos

ateridos, muriéndome de pena.

Nothing could be more heartrending than this mute and motionless despair.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment, and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.