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Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).




Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.
Ambrose Bierce
Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
Denise Levertov | Sadness Quotes
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
William Davenant
Since knowledge is but sorrow’s spy,
It is not safe to know.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Sadness Quotes
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Rory Gallagher
The man who got me back into the blues.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Marc Maron
I think, in most cases, the difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.


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