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Virgil | Sadness Quotes
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.




Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Bernard Malamud | Sadness Quotes
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
William Blake
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Ed Harcourt | Sadness Quotes
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!


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