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Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.




Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Sue Monk Kidd
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Margaret Drabble | Sadness Quotes
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.


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