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Robert Pollok | Sadness Quotes
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Henry Miller
Writing is Crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain & sorrow to commemorate an event which is intransmissible.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.




George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Ben Jonson | Sadness Quotes
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.




Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Rollo May | Sadness Quotes
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Michel de Montaigne
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.


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