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Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
Yes, I’ll move away. I’d rather sorrow over your absence than over you.
William Cowper
Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Madonna
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Kate Chopin
There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.
Thomas Tusser
Who goeth a borrowing
Goeth a sorrowing.
Petrarch | Sadness Quotes
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.
Antonio Porchia
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Norman Borlaug
"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery."
Cesare Pavese
There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Richard Henry Stoddard
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow’s purse is free.
D. H. Lawrence | Sadness Quotes
Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.




Emil Cioran
Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Rollo May
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Thomas Malthus
To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.
P. G. Wodehouse | Sadness Quotes
There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
Abbie Hoffman
Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.
Ivo Andric
In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.
Ed Harcourt
My heartache, is my mistake you see. ~ "God Protect Your Soul"
Herbert Hoover
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.


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