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Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
Aristotle said melancholy men of all others are most witty.
John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...




Madame Swetchine
What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Water has its moods, flowing or still; it can lure you like a lover, or look as bleak as a broken heart.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Forget all feuds, and shed one English tear
O'er English dust. A broken heart lies here.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Long life hath long Misery.
Margaret Drabble
Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.
Abbie Hoffman | Sadness Quotes
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.




Swami Vivekananda
Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
William Blake | Sadness Quotes
Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.
Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.


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