Sadness

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another

Better safe than sorry

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

The woman cries before the wedding and the man after.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing of time.

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall die

Sometimes only one person is missing and the whole world seems depopulated