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Tell us, pray, what devil
This melancholy is, which can transform
Men into monsters.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Samuel Beckett
Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?




Frederick William Robertson
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
George Eliot
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Joan Robinson | Sadness Quotes
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
James Howell
To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Ambrose Bierce
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
Oliver Goldsmith | Sadness Quotes
Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,
Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.




Wilhelm Stekel
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.
Tony Snow
Play that funky music white girl.
Jonathan Katz
I hate going to funerals because I'm not a mourning person.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.
Anonymous | Sadness Quotes
In God we trust. The rest must pay cash. (US Depression saying.)
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Anton Chekhov
I’m in mourning for my life.
Edward de Bono
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.


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