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Richard Hovey | Sadness Quotes
There is no sorrow like a love denied
Nor any joy like love that has its will.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Jacques Derrida
Derrida has a distressing penchant for saying things that are obviously false.




Guy de Maupassant
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Thomas Malthus | Sadness Quotes
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
Theodore Kaczynski
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Heinrich Heine
Out of my own great woe
I make my little songs.
Jane Austen
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?




Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Gautama Buddha
Desire is the cause for all your sickness and misery.
Men die but sorrow never dies.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Michelle Trachtenberg
I put out an ad in the classifieds: ‘Wanted, superhero. I’m a damsel in distress’.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Oscar Wilde
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.


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