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Indro Montanelli | Sadness Quotes
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.




Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Vernon Howard | Sadness Quotes
All heartache is caused by wrong viewpoints.




William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Francoise Sagan | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.


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