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William Blake | Sadness Quotes
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.




William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Joseph Conrad | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!




Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Robert Burns | Sadness Quotes
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Hannah More
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.


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