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Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
Denise Levertov
I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness'.




Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Lord Byron | Sadness Quotes
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Emil Cioran
Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
William Butler Yeats
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.




Britney Spears
Saying no is so heartbreaking.
Alexander Pope
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.
Ben Jonson
Hang sorrow! care'll kill a cat.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Theodore Kaczynski | Sadness Quotes
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.
Anthony Burgess
"The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish."
Kate Bush
All young gentle dreams drowning
In life's grief
Can you hang on to 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).
George Herbert
Marry a widdow before she leave mourning.


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