30 phrases of sad poems for those who want to enjoy melancholy

Dying is an art, like everything else. In this I am exceptional.

Sylvia Plath

I know the bottom, she says. I know with my deepest root: it is what you fear. I fear not: I have been there.

Sylvia Plath

I live threatened by this dark being that sleeps in me; All day long I feel its soft, evil movements.

Sylvia Plath

How much sadness and bitterness drown the narrow life in confusion!

Fernando Pessoa

A voice said: look at me in the stars and tell me truly, men of the earth, if all the scars of soul and body were not too much to pay for birth.

Robert Frost

Today I feel my soul full of sadness! A bell tolls in me Hail Mary! Outside, the rain, white slender hands make the window lace of Venice.

Florbela Espanca

To discover the causes of life, we have to resort to death.

Mary Shelley

O rain! The wind! O snow! What torture! Shout this bitterness to the whole world, say this that I feel I can’t!

Florbela Espanca

God’s sorrow is like God: eternal. God created sad. Another source does not have the sadness of man.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

Your eyes are sad, nor do you hear what I say. They sleep, they dream, they forget… You don’t hear me, and I go on.

Fernando Pessoa

What exists is confused with what I sleep and am. I don’t feel, I’m not sad. But sad is what I am.

Fernando Pessoa

The girl who smiles all the time is the one who is never okay.

Lang Leav

For those who say they never knew – the saddest ones leave the smallest of clues.

Lang Leav

She says she doesn’t feel anything, the heavy death which also weighs me down.

Alison Pick

Since childhood, I have not been like others were – I have not seen. As others have seen – I couldn’t bring it.

Edgar Allan Poe

In the face of a broken heart, no one else can speak without having had the great privilege of having suffered as well.

Emily Dickinson

You are sad because you are sad. It’s psychic. It is the age. It’s chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll.

Margaret Atwood

Once, when I was young and true, someone made me sad–broke my brittle heart in two; and this is very bad.

Dorothy Parker

My life is cold, dark and sad. It rains and the wind never tires.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love is so short, oblivion is so long.

Pablo Neruda

We have to live with the loss and maybe play with a bad hand of cards and we know all the time what the score is.

Charles Bukowski

At the center of what I remember was unmade love: what wasn’t gnaws what was like the sea air.

Ana Martins Marques

I assess every grief I encounter with narrow, probing eyes. I wonder if it weighs like mine or is an easier size.

Emily Dickinson

I grew up with wounds and it is with them that I will die. They are marks of so many races, of when I should have stopped but I ended up running.

We finally agreed to meet on the corner of our streets that do not intersect.

Ana Martins Marques

It was so melancholy that she felt that not even solitude kept her company.

They say happiness will find you, but I think sadness will hit you too. It comes to you in the dark, when you think you’ve made it.

Erin Hanson

But what is stronger than the human heart, which breaks many times and lives on?

Rupi Kaur

I know what my heart has been like since your love died: it’s like a hollow ledge, holding a small pool, left there by the tide.

Edna St. Vincent Millay