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Robert Burton | Sadness Quotes
All my joys to this are folly
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.




Edward Young
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.
Richard Crashaw | Sadness Quotes
Days that need borrow
No part of their good morrow
From a fore-spent night of sorrow.
They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.
Robert Southey
Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.
John Kenneth Galbraith
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
John Dryden | Sadness Quotes
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.




David Harvey (geographer)
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Jane Addams
... of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment ...
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
John Ford (dramatist)
Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Emo Philips | Sadness Quotes
When I was ten, my family moved to Downers Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.


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