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Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.




Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Kate Chopin | Sadness Quotes
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.




Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Anonymous
Depression is anger without enthusiasm. - Steven C
Orson Scott Card | Sadness Quotes
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.


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