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Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.




Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Logan Pearsall Smith | Sadness Quotes
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Charles Lamb
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Erica Jong
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Edward de Bono | Sadness Quotes
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.




Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Jonathan Katz | Sadness Quotes
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
George Herbert
He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
William Mountford
When we feel how God was in our sorrows, we shall trust the more blessedly that He will be in our deaths.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.


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