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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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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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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Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. – Bible

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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

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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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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. – Lauren Bacall

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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life. – Virginia Woolf

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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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