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Rutherford B. Hayes | Sadness Quotes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cullen Bryant
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.




Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Wystan Hugh Auden
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Alexander Pope | Sadness Quotes
And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Robert Herrick
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
William Wordsworth | Sadness Quotes
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.




Bion of Borysthenes
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Edward Payson
I was never fit to say a word to a sinner, except when I had a broken heart myself.
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
Vanna Bonta
Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.
John Fletcher
Drink today, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do't tomorrow.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Richard Albrecht
Some die with their boots on, some die of cancer, but most lefties die of their broken hearts.


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