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Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.




Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.




Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Ahmed Shah Durrani
Away from you, grief clings to my heart like a snake.
Frida Kahlo
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.


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