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There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Anger, tears and sadness are only for those who have given up (Quote by - Katie Gill)

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. (Quote by - Carl Gustav Jung)

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)

It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)

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. (Quote by - Emile Durkheim )

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you. (Quote by - Mark Twain )

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)

Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere! (Quote by - Guy Finley)

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Quote by - Arthur Koestler)

Onions make me sad, a lot of people don't realize that. When I'm cutting onions, I'm sad. Because the plight of onions, it's sad. But people don't realize I'm actually crying - they think I'm just reacting. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth)

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow. (Quote by - Alfred De Musset)

Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends. (Quote by - African Proverb quotes)

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. (Quote by - Stefan Kanfer)

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. (Quote by - John Heyl Vincent)

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. (Quote by - Andre Gide)

Tis impious in a good man to be sad. (Quote by - Edward Young)

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness (Quote by - Italo Calvino)

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)

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