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Jose Marti | Sadness Quotes
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!




Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.




Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Charles Brockden Brown
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Robert Burton
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Virgil
Infandum, regina, iubes renovare dolorem.
Paul Eluard
Farewell sadness good day sadness you are inscribed in the lines of the ceiling.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.


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