Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o  u' il doit enfin accepter d'e"  tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

-Anouilh,Jean
  Antigone.

Faire l'amour avec une femme qui ne vous pla|"t pas, c'est aussi triste que de travailler. To make love with a woman whom you do not like is as sad as going to work.

-Anouilh,Jean
L'Hermine, act1.

'Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, Edward, Edward, Why dois your brand sae drap wi' bluid, And why sae sad gang ye O?'

-Ballads
'Edward', opening lines.

We loved, siröused to meet: How sad and bad and mad it wasö But then, how it was sweet!

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'Confessions', stanza 9.

Into that sad obscure sequestered state Where God unmakes but to remake the soul He else made first in vain; which must not be.

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.10, l.2129^31.

Mad about the boy, It's pretty funny but I'm mad about the boy. He has a gayappeal That makes me feel There may be something sad about the boy.

-Coward, Sir Noe«  l Peirce
  'Mad  About the Boy' (song).

Stale is their gladness who were never sad.

-Harpur, Charles
'Sonnet XIII', collected in C  W Salier (ed) Rosa: Love Sonnets to Mary Doyle (1949).

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are,'It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be.'

-Harte, (Francis) Bret
  'Mrs.  Judge  Jenkins'.

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.

-Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh
  'Rondeau'.

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men: But, at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met. No simple word, That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning: or affright The liberty, that we'll enjoy tonight.

-Jonson, Ben
  Epigrams,'On Inviting a Friend to Supper'.

I wanted to be black. I always wanted to be black† Being black iswarm and gay, being white is cold and sad.

-Rhys,Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams
  Voyage in the Dark, ch.1.

The oldest griefs of summer seem less sad than drone of mowers on suburban lawns and girls'thin laughter, to the ears that hear the soft rain falling of the failing stars.

-Rickword, Edgell
  'Regret for the Passing of the Entire Scheme ofThings'.

Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

-Rossetti, Christina Georgina
  Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Remember'.

Je suis triste pour ma ge¤  ne¤  ration qui est vide de toute substance humaine. I am sad for my generation which is empty of all human substance.

-Saint-Exupe¤  ry, Antoine de
  Lettre au ge¤  ne¤  ral, no.10. Published10 Apr1948 in Le Figaro litte¤  raire.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciouslyaged and sad.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Irrational Knot, ch.14.

   Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

-Spenser, Edmund
  Epithalamion, section16.

This sad vicissitude of things.

-Sterne, Laurence
  Sermons,'The Character of Shimei', no.16.

Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name.

-Swinburne, Algernon Charles
  Poems and Ballads (2nd edn),'Ballad of Fran c° oisVillon'.

   So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 2.

   Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds To dying ears, when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square; So sad, so strange, the days that are no more. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanzas 3^4.