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Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.




Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.




Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Herb Caen | Sadness Quotes
Parking is such street sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.


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