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Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Thomas Gray
And moody madness laughing wild
Amid severest woe.
William Wordsworth
And mighty poets in their misery dead.




William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Becky Stark | Sadness Quotes
In sorrow there is no rhyme.




Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
William Cowper
Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.
Sarada Devi
Ordinary human love results in misery. Love for God brings blessedness.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.


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