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One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.




Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
David Levy
There are three things needed to eliminate human misery. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
N. K. Jemisin
There is no logic to grief.
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Thomas Otway | Sadness Quotes
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.




Ringo Starr
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
Thomas Jefferson
The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?


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