- Sad quotes, classic: "After many a summer dies the swan." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud." - Shakespeare, Sonnet 35
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness" - Carl Jung
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." - Tennessee Williams
"The hottest love has the coldest end." - Socrates"Parting is such sweet sorrow" - Shakespeare, Juliet to Romeo
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers." - Helen Keller
"How sad is he who cannot forgive himself." - Publilius Syrus