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Sadness Quotes - Page 27

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.

Laurie Halse Anderson (2010). “Chains”, p.319, Simon and Schuster

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1778). “The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Prophetess. Queen of Corinth. Tragedy of Bonduca. Knight of the Burning Pestle”, p.240

There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult