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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Conor Oberst | Sadness Quotes
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.




Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
P. G. Wodehouse | Sadness Quotes
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.


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