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Indro Montanelli | Sadness Quotes
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.




Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Ray Bradbury | Sadness Quotes
The crowd upon the cross gives anguished roar;
A moment terrible to hear.
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Homer | Sadness Quotes
The man for wisdom's various arts renown'd,
Long exercised in woes, O Muse! resound.




Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Joseph Addison
To my confusion, and eternal grief,
I must approve the sentence that destroys me.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.


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