Quote by Emile Durkheim
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the w

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

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

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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. – Emile Durkheim

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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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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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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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