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William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Blaise Pascal
A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us. 136




Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Jacques Derrida | Sadness Quotes
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.




Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.


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