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John Updike | Sadness Quotes
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.




Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
William Mountford | Sadness Quotes
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
William R. Alger
God's mills grind slow,
But they grind woe.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.




William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Pythagoras
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.
John Logan
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.


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