A Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations

Every human feeling, answered by Shakespeare: an 1892 dictionary that files the Bard's best lines under the passions they express — from Ambition to Woe.

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Sadness: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad; It wearies me; you say, it wearies you : But how I caught it, found it, or came by't, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.— M. V. i. 1
Howe'e it be, I cannot but be sad; so heavy sad, As, though in thinking, on no thought I think,- Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.— R. II. ii. 2
Such a want-wit sadness makes of me, "That I have much ado to know myself,— M. V. i. 1.
Shakespearian Dictionary. SAT I do note, That grief and patience, rooted in him both, Cym. iv.2 Mingle their spurs together. There is no measure in the occasion that breeds it, there fore the sadness is without limit.— M. A. i. 3.
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