Sadness

“Of all tales 'tis the saddest—and more sad,Because it makes us smile.”

“If you're sad, it's a way of connecting with other people. And we - a lot of times we sort of feel embarrassed by being sad, and we go off by ourselves to hide and cry by ourselves. But, really, it's a way of re-establishing relationship.”

“When I’m sad, I seem so grotesque to myself that it makes me laugh; when I’m cheerful, I make such idiotic jokes that I feel inclined to cry.”

“I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.”

“'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.”

“Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?”

“A feeling of sadness and longing,As the mist resembles the rain.”

“Yet be sad, good brothers,That I will deeply put the fashion on.”

“We look before and after,Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”