Sadness and Melancholy

are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

Oh lonesome’s a bad place To get crowded into.

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

Farewell sadness Good morning sadness. 2

My sad heart foams at the stern. 4

Adieu tristesse

I myself walked at the funeral of tenderness.

I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

I was much too far out all my life

Be near me when my light is low.

 

What do I care that you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad! 11

Forlorn! the very word is like a bell

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

The long mechanic pacings to and fro, The set gray life, and apathetic end.

 

The most despairing songs are the loveliest of all, I know immortal ones composed only of tears.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

Walk it slow where you go walk it slow… We in the world Poor as dirt Somebody’ll get hurt the world is black the world is green the world is red, yellow, brown the world is mean

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

The mass of men lead lives of quietdesperation. What is called resignation isconfirmed desperation.

This is the truth the poet sings, That a sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.

 

Child, you are like a flower, So sweet and pure and fair. I look at you, and sadness Touches me with a prayer.