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Pierre de Ronsard | Sadness Quotes
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.




Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Edmund Waller | Sadness Quotes
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Antonio Porchia
Sometimes I find that misery is so vast that I am afraid of needing it.
Euripides | Sadness Quotes
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.




Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.


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