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Harry S. Truman | Sadness Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Peter Greenaway
Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Joe Hill
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize.




Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent read and re-read the pitiful message [a suicide note], so full of the awful egotism of grief.
Bertrand Russell
I regard [religion] as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
Grief carries its own antidote along with it.
Thomas Gray
What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
William Blake
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
Abraham Lincoln | Sadness Quotes
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.




Euripides
When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
Conor Oberst
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.
Sophocles
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
George Eliot
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
Becky Stark
In sorrow there is no rhyme.
David Hume
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.
Joseph Addison
Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer
Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?


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