Famous Quotes - Tags - Sadness

  • A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
    Long fallen wide. More
  • A tragedy need not have blood and death: It’s enough ... that it all be filled with that... More
  • A voice I heard—and near I yede—
    In great dolour complaining tho:
    ‘See, dear soul,... More
  • And everybody to the saddest
    Laughed the loud laugh the big laugh at the little. More
  • As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their... More
  • Do not doubt it, he loves. Instructed by so many charms, his eyes have been trained in the use of... More
  • Down in the valley,
    Valley so low,
    Hang your head over,
    Hear the train blow. More
  • Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that... More
  • Extreme happiness begets tragedy. More
  • for beauty with sorrow
    Is a burden hard to be borne:
    The evening light on the foam, and... More
  • He raised a sigh so piteous and profound
    That it did seem to shatter all his bulk
    And end... More
  • Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
    Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
    As if to... More
  • I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. More
  • I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed. More
  • I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
    A stage, where every man must play a... More
  • I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
    The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, . . . More
  • I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous. More
  • I thought no more was needed
    Youth to prolong
    Than dumb-bell and foil
    To keep the... More
  • I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
    We tire of the flame of... More
  • If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
    Haunting untrodden paths to wail... More
  • In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. More
  • Intellectual disgrace
    Stares from every human face,
    And the seas of pity lie
    Locked... More
  • It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of... More
  • It is difficult even to choose the adjective
    For this blank cold, this sadness without... More
  • It is sanctionable and right
    Always to be ashamed of being sad. More
  • Let us say you are sad
    Because you are not merry; and ‘twere as easy
    For you to laugh... More
  • Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. More
  • Like the moon her kindness is.
    If kindness I may call
    What has no comprehension... More
  • Love made him weep his pints like you and me. More
  • Man was not made to succumb to the villain Woe. More
  • Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all... More
  • My Tondeleyo, my black blonde
    Will not be homing soon. More
  • Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. More
  • Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without... More
  • Oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and the higher the... More
  • One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness. More
  • Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
    Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
    Laugh,... More
  • People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is... More
  • Sad hours seem long. More
  • Sad. Nothing more than sad. Let’s not call it a tragedy; a broken heart is never a tragedy.... More
  • Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart. More
  • Sleep, and forget all things but one,
    Heard in each wave of sea,—
    How lonely all the... More
  • So wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness from the peculiar... More
  • The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned. More
  • the mother lies down on her marriage bed
    and eats up her heart like two eggs. More
  • The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our... More
  • The poppy that my heart was,
    formed to bind all mortals,
    made to strike and gather... More
  • The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy. More
  • The saddest of all kings
    Crowned, and again discrowned. More
  • There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one’s melancholy. More
  • There is no love;
    There are only the various envies, all of them sad.” More
  • There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having... More
  • To write one song, I said,
    As sad as the sad wind
    That walks around my bed ... More
  • We like the chase better than the quarry.... And those who philosophize on the matter, and who... More
  • We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness. More
  • When we two parted
    In silence and tears, More
  • Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to... More
  • Wulf, my Wulf! Waiting for you
    has made me ill, your seldom coming,
    this sorrowing... More
  • Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon,
    How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair?
    How can ye... More
  • Yet I would bear my shortcomings
    With meet tranquility,
    But for the charge that blessed... More
  • Your faith an’ trouth yese never get
    Nor our trew Love shall never twain
    Till ye come... More
  • “Michael Henchard’s Will
    “That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made... More

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