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Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.




William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.




Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Jeff Buckley
Certain people compared us, I've been mourning the fact that it would have been great to sing a duet.
Robert Burns
In durance vile here must I wake and weep,
And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
Jean de La Bruyere | Sadness Quotes
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Anonymous
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Matthew Arnold
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.
Oliver Goldsmith
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,
Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary,
Power, alas! naught but misery brings!


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