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Sadness Quotes - random


Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Robert Greene | Sadness Quotes
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.




John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.


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