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To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.




John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
This grief is crowned with consolation.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Robert Southey | Sadness Quotes
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.




Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Lord Byron
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.


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