Sadness

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. .

Sadness

• Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
  • Anna Letitia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose, XIII.

• Of all tales 'tis the saddest—and more sad,
  Because it makes us smile.
  • Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, Stanza 9.

• 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, The Day is Done, Stanza 3.

• Yet be sad, good brothers,
  * * * * *
  Sorrow so royally in you appears,
  That I will deeply put the fashion on.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, Act V, scene 2, line 49.

• 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.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark, Stanza 18.

• 'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
  • Edward Young, Night Thoughts, Night IV, line 676.