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Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Possibly the worst break up line ever: it's not me, it's you.
-Anonymous
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
-Samuel Beckett
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Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
-Bible
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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
-William Blake
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Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.
-William Blake
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
-William Blake
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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
-Dorothea Brande
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Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.
-Robert Burns
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The busy have no time for tears.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
-Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.
-Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.
-Arthur H. Clough
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We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
-Confucius
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The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
-William Cowper
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
-Edward De Bono
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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
-Emily Dickinson
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
(translated 1951)
-Emile Durkheim
Suicide, bk. 3, ch. 3, sct. 1, 1897
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
(translated 1951)
-Emile Durkheim
Suicide, bk. 2, ch. 6, sct. 1, 1897
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