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John Hay | Sadness Quotes
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.




Kenzaburo Oe
The writer’s job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.
Thomas Wolfe
The exquisite smell of the south, clean but funky, like a big woman.
Cesare Pavese | Sadness Quotes
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Those eyes the greenest of things blue
The bluest of things grey.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
William Faulkner
Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
Henry Howard | Sadness Quotes
And thus I see among these pleasant things
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs!




James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Sophocles | Sadness Quotes
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Emo Philips
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)


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