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John Home | Sadness Quotes
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.




Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
William Hazlitt | Sadness Quotes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Matthew Arnold | Sadness Quotes
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.




Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
George Eliot
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Thomas Malory | Sadness Quotes
The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.
Pierre de Ronsard
Sorrow is always a companion of pleasure.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.


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