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Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?




Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Robert Greene
Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.
Rory Gallagher | Sadness Quotes
The man who got me back into the blues.
P. G. Wodehouse
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Sue Monk Kidd | Sadness Quotes
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.




Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Thomas Hood
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Emily Dickinson | Sadness Quotes
I REASON, earth is short,
And anguish absolute.
And many hurt;
But what of that?
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.


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