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William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.




Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Blaise Pascal | Sadness Quotes
Without amusement there is no joy; with amusement there is no sadness. 139
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.




Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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