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

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

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

Yet be sad, good brothers, For, by my faith, it very well becomes you. Sorrow so royally in you appears That I will deeply put the fashion on And wear it in my heart.

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.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.