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Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
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.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Percy Bysshe Shelley | Sadness Quotes
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Joanna Baillie
But woman's grief is like a summer storm,
Short as it violent is.
Joseph Addison
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way
To all the pangs and fury of despair.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
John Hay
He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.
Jonathan Katz | Sadness Quotes
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.




John Ford (dramatist)
Melancholy
Is not, as you conceive, indisposition
Of body, but the mind's disease.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Conor Oberst
Well, if you die... that's a bummer...
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.


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