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John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.




E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
John Logan | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.




Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.


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