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Ambrose Bierce | Sadness Quotes
Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Antonio Porchia
When everyone sorrows, no one hears the sorrows.
John Home
In the first days
Of my distracting grief, I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.




John Updike
[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."
Joseph Schumpeter
Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.
William Butler Yeats | Sadness Quotes
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Edward Young
The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Billy Sunday
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
Georges Simenon
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Indro Montanelli
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.




Herbert Hoover
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.
Wallace Stevens
That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.
Emil Cioran
Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
Rutherford B. Hayes
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Antonio Porchia | Sadness Quotes
You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Matthew Henry
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
John Updike
She closes her eyes and wordlessly thinks of all the misery sex has caused the world...
John Dryden
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate
Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.


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