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Francoise Sagan | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.




Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Guy de Maupassant | Sadness Quotes
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Vittorio Alfieri
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Sydney Smith | Sadness Quotes
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.




William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Erica Jong | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.


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