Sad Quotes

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

• Victor Hugo




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

• Edwin Whipple




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

• Olive Schreiner




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




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

• Jean Paul Richter




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

• Thomas Carlyle




Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion

• Arthur Koestler




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

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow




Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad

• George Bernard Shaw




Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves

• Emily Bronte




Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue

• Andre Gide




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

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns




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

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns




Evil is never ameliorated
by being tolerated.

• Ikeogu Oke

Salutes Without Guns




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

• George Eliot




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

• saajida gora

14/09/2011




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

• John Greenleaf Whittier




in autumn death’s harmony is alive

(Improvisations on Armonic Key)

• Constantin Severin

Constantin Severin




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

(Improvisations on Armonic Key)

• Constantin Severin

Constantin Severin




politics is a dancer, faked banknotes her dress

(Wall and Neutrino.The Poet in New York)

• Constantin Severin

Constantin Severin