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David Levy | Sadness Quotes
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Sydney Smith
Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.




Oscar Wilde
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Theodore Kaczynski | Sadness Quotes
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
George Ade
She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.
Britney Spears | Sadness Quotes
Saying no is so heartbreaking.




Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Richard Crashaw
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Homer
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.
Joe Hill | Sadness Quotes
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Arthur Symons
I have laid sorrow to sleep;
Love sleeps.
She who oft made me weep
Now weeps.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Abraham Lincoln
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.


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