Sadness

(250 votes)   Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(160 votes)   We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

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(110 votes)   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. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

Emile Durkheim
1858-1917, French Sociologist

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(106 votes)   The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

William C. Bryant
1794-1878, American Poet, Newspaper Editor

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