Possibly the worst break up line ever: its not me, its you. – Anonymous
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, its the most comical thing in the world. – Samuel Beckett
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. – Bible
Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. – William Blake
There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow. – Dorothea Brande
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the days out and the labor done. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Had we never lovd sae kindly, Had we never lovd sae blindly, Never met — or never parted — we had never been broken-hearted. – Robert Burns
The busy have no time for tears. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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
Mans 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
Never believe straight off in a mans unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answers yes, alls well. That is enough. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine
It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown. – William Cowper
To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe. – Emily Dickinson
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. – Emile Durkheim
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. – Emile Durkheim
