Quote by Emile Durkheim
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many

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

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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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Dreams
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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Greed
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. – Emile Durkheim

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Suicide
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Sadness
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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

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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, its the most comical thing in the world. – Samuel Beckett

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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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Sadness

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. – William Blake

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Sadness

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All things grow with time — except grief. – Yiddish Proverb

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. – Jean Houston

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