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George Eliot | Sadness Quotes
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Robert Burns
Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.




John Ford (dramatist)
Fly hence, shadows, that do keep,
Watchful sorrows, charmed in sleep.
Oliver Goldsmith
In all the silent manliness of grief.
Rory Gallagher | Sadness Quotes
The man who got me back into the blues.
Thomas Aquinas
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Company in Misery makes it light.
Solomon
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Edith Wharton
There's no such thing as old age; there is only sorrow.
Anton Chekhov | Sadness Quotes
I’m in mourning for my life.




Willie Dixon
I am the blues
I am the blues
The whole world knows
I've been mistreated and misused.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Jose Marti
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
Emil Cioran
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Harry S. Truman | Sadness Quotes
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Orson Scott Card
You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven’t died yet.
Willie Dixon
The blues is the roots; everything else is the fruits.
George Bernard Shaw
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Marc Maron
The only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment.


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