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Herman Melville | Sadness Quotes
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
Euripides
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Simon Bolivar
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.




Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Wesley Willis | Sadness Quotes
"Suck a polar bears funky ass!" - Suck a Cheetah's Dick
Stanislaw Leszczynski
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.
Albert Schweitzer
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
Antonio Porchia
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
Ringo Starr | Sadness Quotes
Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.




Robert Pollok
Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.


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