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Chris Rock | Sadness Quotes
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?




David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.




Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.


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