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The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.




Arthur Hugh Clough
Hope conquers cowardice, joy grief;
Or at least, faith unbelief.
Anonymous
Misery is the fastest breeding substance in the world.
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
King of England John
Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.
Frederick Willaim Faber
Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,
The protest of the weak against the strong.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Vittorio Alfieri | Sadness Quotes
D'uomo ? il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.




Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Have women ever stopped mourning for anyone like Khalid?
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Saadi
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Leo Tolstoy | Sadness Quotes
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to me?
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.


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