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Edward Gibbon | Sadness Quotes
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.




Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Richard Hovey
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Alfred Bunn
The heart bowed down by weight of woe
To weakest hope will cling.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.




John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Lord Byron
No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.


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