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Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.




James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Saadi | Sadness Quotes
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
George Herbert | Sadness Quotes
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.




Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Rutherford B. Hayes | Sadness Quotes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.


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