Sad Quotes

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue

There is a grief no voice can speak,
Nor mind comprehend;
It cuts deeper than the quick,
And drips pain even after the end.

The walls i built around me, have fallen apart,
for the sadness of the world have touched my heart

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed

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

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men

A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves

There is a grief no voice can speak,
Nor mind comprehend;
It cuts deeper than the quick,
And drips pain even after the end.

Evil is never ameliorated
by being tolerated.

vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those that are sad

in autumn death’s harmony is alive

(Improvisations on Armonic Key)

someday we shall be living texts
into the blinding stomach of a sunken city
exactly within the word ‘city’

(Improvisations on Armonic Key)

politics is a dancer, faked banknotes her dress

(Wall and Neutrino.The Poet in New York)