Sad Quotes & Sayings

Sad Quotes & Sayings

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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. - Horace



Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. - William Shakespeare



There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. - Charles Mackay



See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! - Alexander Pope



Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart. [Black Venus] - Angela Carter



Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. - Bertolt Brecht



He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. - Voltaire



Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November [it] was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life. - Harold Macmillan



Come, let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me. All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell. - William Shakespeare



Travelling is a fool's paradise. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. - Ralph Waldo Emerson



In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by. [De., Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten, Dass ich so traurig bin: Ein marchen aus alten Zeiten Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.] - Heinrich Heine



In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. - William Wordsworth