William Shakespeare Sadness Quotations

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness.

But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness.