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Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Edward Gibbon
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
John Ray
Misery loves company.




Alexander Pope
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Richard Hooker
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.
Bion of Borysthenes | Sadness Quotes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.




E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Oscar Wilde
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.


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