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Georges Simenon | Sadness Quotes
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Antony and Cleopatra
This grief is crowned with consolation.




David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.
Emil Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Jesus Christ
My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Avner Strauss
If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time. If the Blues Were Wine, 1/2 Precent Blues (1995).
Emil Cioran | Sadness Quotes
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.




Addison Mizner
Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.
Joseph Schumpeter | Sadness Quotes
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
Karen Blixen
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.
Subhash Kak
If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.


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