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Thomas Carlyle | Sadness Quotes
If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




George Henry Lewes
The only cure for grief is action.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Chris Rock
Comedy is the blues for people who can't sing.
Thomas Hood
No blessed leisure for love or hope,
But only time for grief.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.




Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Henry Howard
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Madonna Ciccone
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.


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