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Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010




Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
William Davenant | Sadness Quotes
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
Peter Greenaway | Sadness Quotes
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.




Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Eugene Ionesco | Sadness Quotes
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.


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