#Sadness Quotes

“This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.”

“I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.”

“In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.”

“Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.”

“I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,forgone all custom of exercise.”

“What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?”

“I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)”

“...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”

“For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.”

“Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.”

“But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.”

“There's nothing in this world can make me joy.”

“Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.”

“The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.”

“And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.”

“Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.”

“How is it that the clouds still hang on you?”

“Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.”

“You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?”

“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

“Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.”

“I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.”

“My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.”

“Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”

“Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun.”

“a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries”

“Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.”

“A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.”

“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”

“loveliness is infernally sad.”

“In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”

“Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.”

“Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.”

“I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.”

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.”

“There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.”

“...we almost never speakI don't feel welcome anymorebaby what happened, please tell me?”

“Oh! Everything I loved!”

“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”

“Bert Williams was the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew.”

“In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.”

“A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.”

“Sometimes when I'm alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own. The tears I cry are bitter and warm. They flow with life but take no form I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on. If I had an ear to confide in, I would cry among my treasured friend, but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on. The world moves fast and it would rather pass by. Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad. And sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.”

“The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.”

“Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.”

“The day you chose to leave me it rained constantly in truth I swore the rain to be the tears of cuspids eyes.”