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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.




Robert Burton
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Vanna Bonta | Sadness Quotes
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
George Wither
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,
And therefore let ’s be merry.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Madonna Ciccone | Sadness Quotes
Timbaland: "Madonna's a funky lady, she's up for everything."




Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.


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