Sad Sayings & Quotes
These sad sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.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
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. - Henry Ward Beecher
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
Let's not unman each other, part at once; All farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears. - Lord Byron
Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth un-knit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave. - Matthew Arnold
In our sad condition, our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. - Martin Luther
I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care for nae-body. - Robert Burns
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. - Jean Paul Richter
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. - Brigitte Bardot
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. - Ernest Hemingway
Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it. - Jean Anouilh Ardele
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. - Ama Ata Aidoo
I am rather unfriendly toward the Marxists, as I am towards those who persecute them, simply because they regard the unit by which one judges human behaviour as the mass, and I really believe the individual is much more important than the mass. In fact, the mass is really composed of individuals that have momentarily lost their voice, which is a sad state of affairs. - Peter Ustinov
One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that other people will never know about. - Anne Tyler