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Jeff Buckley | Sadness Quotes
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.




Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Arthur Symons | Sadness Quotes
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.




William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.
Tori Amos
That is some funky-fresh, pop lockin' shit.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."


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