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Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Blaise Pascal
Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. 122
Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.




Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.




Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Paulo Coelho
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.


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