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1,048. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’ (Life’s Like That & Sad & Words) John Greenleaf Whittier, The Brewing of Soma 1872
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94,757. There's nought as sad in word or scene
Than knowing the things that might have been. (Word & Sad) esias
50,564. Shall we play the wantons with our woes,
And make some pretty match with shedding tears? William Shakespeare, Richard II III iii 164
4,164. A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one. (World & Stage & Action & Sad) William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice I i, Antonio
50,563. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one. ibid. I i 77
46,152. In truth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me. (Shakespeare & Sadness) The Merchant of Venice 2004 starring Al Pacino & Jeremy Irons & Joseph Fiennes & Lynn Collins & Zuleikha Robinson & Kris Marshall & Charlie Cox & Heather Goldenhersh & Mackenzie Crook & Jonh Sessions & Gregor Fisher & Ron Cook et al, director Michael Radford, Antonio
1,187. There is no measure in the occasion that breeds
it, therefore the sadness is without limit. (Life’s Like That & Measure & Sadness & Limit) William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing I ii 3-4, Conrad to Don John
46,169. Tis good to be sad and say nothing. (Shakespeare & Sad) As You Like It, Globe Theatre Sky Arts 2012, Jaques
50,565. But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe. William Shakespeare, Hamlet I ii 85
87,435. I have of late ... lost all my mirth. ibid. II ii 289-290, Hamlet to Guildenstern & Rosencrantz
3,154. I’m coming back in … and it’s the saddest moment of my life. (Space & Sad) Ed White, first American spacewalk Gemini 4 mission 3 June 1965
4,138. All the world is sad and dreary
Everywhere I roam,
Oh! Darkies, how my heart grows weary,
Far from the old folks at home. (World & Sad & Old Age) Stephen Collins Foster, The Old Folks at Home 1851
27,385. I suspect sadness is not compatible with sadness. (Nazi & Sadness) This Must Be the Place 2011 starring Sean Penn & Frances McDormand & Judd Hirsch & Eve Hewson & Kerry Condon & Harry Dean Stanton & Joyce van Patten & David Byrne & Olwen Fouere et al, director Paolo Sorrentinol, Penn
50,015. There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It’s because America has such an ideology of success. (Poverty & Sadness) Will Self
50,518. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. (Mental Health & Depression & Sadness & Sorrow) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
50,521. I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. (Depression & Mental Health & Sadness) John Keats
50,524. my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: ‘Henry, smile!
why don’t you ever smile?’
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw. (Depression & Mental Health & Sadness & Domestic Violence) Charles Bukowski
50,571. Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. Charles Bukowski, You Get so Alone at Times that it Just Makes Sense
50,525. You’re fucked. You thought you were going to be someone, but now it’s obvious you’re nobody. You haven’t got as much talent as you thought you had, and there was no Plan B, and you got no skills and no education, and now you’re looking at forty or fifty years of nothing. Less than nothing, probably. That’s pretty heavy. That’s worse than having the brain thing, because what you got now will take a lot longer to kill you. You’ve got the choice of a slow, painful death, or a quick, merciful one. (Depression & Mental Health & Suicide & Life’s Like That & Despair & Sadness) Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
50,526. I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn’t go the whole way doing what I shouldn’t, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired. (Depression & Mental Health & Sadness) Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
50,566. I cannot explain the sadness
That’s fallen on my breast.
An old, old fable haunts me
And will not let me rest. Heinrich Heine
50,567. You are shaking hands with the most miserable man on Earth. Lloyd George to Lord Hankey
50,568. The sadness will last for ever. Vincent van Gogh
50,569. The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire. You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down. Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
50,570. Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins. Gustave Flaubert
50,572. We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell
Of saddest thought. (Laughter & Sadness & Pain & Bird) Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark
50,573. When you’re sad – like really sad – you only want to be with other people who are sad. Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down