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Sadness Quotes - random


Herbert Hoover | Sadness Quotes
I’m the only person of distinction who’s ever had a depression named for him.
Michael Hudson (economist)
To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem. - December 16, 2010
William Wordsworth
As high as we have mounted in delight,
In our dejection do we sink as low.




Robert Burton
To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance.
Emil Cioran
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Charles Lamb | Sadness Quotes
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Publilius Syrus
It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.
John Pomfret
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.
Joan Robinson
A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Joseph Addison | Sadness Quotes
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.




King of England John
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;
For grief is proud, and makes his owner stout.
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.
Luigi Pirandello
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Anthony Burgess
She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
Henry Lawson | Sadness Quotes
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world.
Herman Melville
In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.
John Ray
Misery loves company.
Charles Dickens
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Sophocles
Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.


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