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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| 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. | 1 |
| Of all tales ’tis the saddest—and more sad, Because it makes us smile. Byron—Don Juan. Canto XIII. St. 9. | 2 |
| A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Longfellow—The Day is Done. St. 3. | 3 |
| Yet be sad, good brothers, * * * * * Sorrow so royally in you appears, That I will deeply put the fashion on. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 49. | 4 |
| 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. Shelley—To a Skylark. St. 18. | 5 |
| ’Tis impious in a good man to be sad. Young—Night Thoughts. Night IV. L. 676. | 6 |
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