All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

quote by Leo Tolstoy
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The Saddest Fate

To touch a broken lute,
To strike a jangled string,
To strive with tones forever mute
The dear old tunes to sing--
What sadder fate could any heart befall?
Alas! dear child, never to sing at all.

To sigh for pleasures flown,
To weep for withered flowers,
To count the blessings we have known,
Lost with the vanished hours--
What sadder fate could any heart befall?
Alas! dear child, ne'er to have known them at all.

To dream of love and rest,
To know the dream has past,
To bear within an aching breast
Only a void at last--
What sadder fate could any heart befall?
Alas! dear child, ne'er to have loved at all.

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poem by Anonymous Americas
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Suicide Sad but True

The voices make you blue
This is sad but true
Now suicide is waiting for you
This is sad but true
Pills seem to be the way now
This sad but true
The bottle is waiting
This is sad but true
What are you to do
This sad but true
Now you swallow all but two
This is sad but true
As your skin turns blue
This is sad but true
Your friend breathes into you
This is sad but true
How did this not work for you
This is sad but true
You just wanted to die too
This is sad but true

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poem by Jeremy Gibbs
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It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

quote by Guy de Maupassant
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Torn Apart

Fading away,
Fake depression,
The sadness in his eyes.
Does he really deserve the pain?
You murdered his soul.
Your one decision broke his heart.
Now he's fading away,
His fake depression,
The sadness in his eyes...
It was better back when
He could just break down and cry.

poem by Cassie Picariello
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Unhappiness can be a bridge to happiness.

Japanese proverbs
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You can run but you can't hide!

I am the runner who does try to hide.
But no matter how far you run you just can't hide.
Depression and dark thought do get me still,
I can't take it all in my stride.
Depression lingers at my side.
On a never ending slide.

Depression makes me numb.
I may aswell be dumb.
I can not feel.
My heart it wants to steal.

My soul it has taken and broken.
My body and mind it has invaded.
Depression please fade.

poem by Amy Louise Kerswell
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My Unhappy Anniversary

You ask me, how am I?
Well I'm still standing, aren't I?
That's something, that's one thing , that's gone my way
It's so hard, to go out, like everything ok now
When inside, I still cry for yesterday

This is my unhappy anniversary! !
But I lie, saying it's just another day
This is my unhappy anniversary! !

I know it's so stupid to feel brokenhearted
I wonder if you know just how much I hurt
I drink up and think up a toast to numb the hours
To get through without you is so hard today
Cause it's unhappy anniversary! !

And now it's near midnight, a few minutes and I
Return to get back to my former life
Pretending our ending was not so bad, I know that
It's time to escape you until next year

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poem by Vivek Khanna
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With Us

Depression

swirls in clouds of blue and gray

binging tears of silence.

Depression

swirls in churning waves

of murky greens and blues

bringing tides of nothing new

and hoplessness blooms.

Depression

sways in feilds of schorched brown

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poem by Chantel Weston
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War on depression

Depression is a fight
Or a flight
Depression is a theif
That should be locked up
Depression steals...
Happiness
Motivation
Sleep
Your appetite
It steals your view on life
It steals how you view yourself
Sometimes it even steals your life

poem by Ferret Girl
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Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.

quote by John Greenleaf Whittier
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Depression owns my soul

It is this nasty thing.
Something like a disease.
Controlling me.
It has taken my soul.
It has destroyed all my goals.

Depression you have taken my soul.
You make very sad.
Becuase i am bad.
And not glad.

Depression is pulling my strings.
With the hart ache that it brings.
But my ears ring.

Depression give me back my soul.
Let me have some goals.
Dont leave me with holes.
An aching hart.
And all the sadness.

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poem by Amy Louise Kerswell
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Broken sadness

A broken sadness is so sad.
I don't know why broken sadness
is so much sadness. Sometimes you see
people just sitting around looking so sad. You
can tell if people are sad. Because there faces show
it. They let so much feelings out. It just hurts them
inside.

poem by Rachel Bishop
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Are You Sad?

You sound so sad,
Are you really

Sad?

Is your garden
Without any

Flower?

I am sad.

You doubt the sound
Of
My sadness?

What does
Sadness really
Sound

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

quote by Chuck Palahniuk
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S a d

and sad, perhaps;
as of children
visited for the first time in their life
by sadness; pure sadness,
without friend or enemy,
just sad; sadness which does not tell
of its parents, or of where it came from,
or of where it might be going;
or of how long it might stay before it goes..
yes, sadness like that.

poem by Michael Shepherd
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Three Nine Two Seven

I change my number instead of 2952.
I can say nothing in this moment.
Fall seem me beautiful.
But I am sad in moment.
Sad, sorrow, unhappy, ugly these kind of words
make me more sad.

poem by Min Kyungdae
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'

quote by John Greenleaf Whittier
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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

quote by John Greenleaf Whittier
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Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

quote by Don Marquis
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