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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.




Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Dante Alighieri | Sadness Quotes
Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.




Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
William Cowper | Sadness Quotes
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.


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