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Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.




Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Lord Byron
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Erik Satie
nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sadness.
Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Greg Bear | Sadness Quotes
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.




Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Francoise Sagan
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.


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