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Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
James Thomson
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
John Fletcher | Sadness Quotes
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Thomas Carlyle
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.




Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Franz Liszt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.


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