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Joseph Schumpeter | Sadness Quotes
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.




Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Menander
Riches cover a multitude of woes.
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Walter Scott
I was not always a man of woe.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.




Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Kenzaburo Oe | Sadness Quotes
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Philip James Bailey
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.


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