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William Shakespeare Quotes about Sadness

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

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

William Shakespeare
Sympathy, Sadness, Sad Life
'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [78]

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

William Shakespeare
Grief, Heart, 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.

William Shakespeare
Humorous, Sadness, Rumination
William Shakespeare (2001). “As You Like It”, p.211, Classic Books Company

What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours?

William Shakespeare
Sadness, Romeo And Juliet Love, Hours
William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.20, Classic Books Company

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

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sadness, Sorrow
1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

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.

William Shakespeare
Nice, Humorous, Sadness
William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.747, BookCaps Study Guides

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

William Shakespeare
Sadness, Blood, Nurse
William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.69, Bantam Classics

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

William Shakespeare
Love, Sadness, Hours
Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.30, Insight Publications

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

William Shakespeare
Grief, Sadness, Blow
'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [370]

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