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A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Emil Cioran
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.




Emil Cioran
Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Thomas Gray | Sadness Quotes
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
James Weldon Johnson
It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.
Bernard Malamud
"Mourning is a hard business," Cesare said. "If people knew there'd be less death."
E. M. Forster
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Willie Dixon | Sadness Quotes
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.




Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Emil Cioran
If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Thomas Hood | Sadness Quotes
There's not a string attuned to mirth
But has its chord in melancholy.
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
William Shakespeare
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.


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