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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sad
 
  Sad as the sunless sea.
            —Franklin P. Adams		  1
  Sad as a subpœna.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Sad as a wail over the dead.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Sad as doom.
            —Anonymous		  4
  As sad as Fate.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Sad as if steering to dim eternity.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Sad as the eyeball of sorrow behind a shroud.
            —Anonymous		  7
  A song as sad as the wild waves be.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Sad as silence when a song is spent.
            —Alfred Austin		  9
  Sad as death.
            —Aphra Behn		  10
  Sad as the groans of dying innocence.
            —Aphra Behn		  11
  Sad as a thousand sighs, when the dark winds sob through the yews.
            —Henry Brooke		  12
  Sad as wisdom cut off from fellowship.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  13
  Sad as Melancholy.
            —Robert Burton		  14
  Sad as angels for the good man’s sin.
            —Thomas Campbell		  15
  Serenely sad as eternity.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  16
  Sad as bull liver.
            —William Carr (The Dialect of Craven)		  17
  Sad as twilight.
            —George Eliot		  18
  Sad as the gust that sweeps the clouded sky.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  19
  Sad as eve.
            —Victor Hugo		  20
  Sad as an image of despair.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  21
  Sad as raindrops on a grave.
            —George P. Lathrop		  22
  My heart is as sad as a black stone under the blue sea.
            —Samuel Lover		  23
  Sad as the tears the sullen Winter weeps.
            —George Mac-Henry		  24
  Sad, like the sun in the day of mist, when his face is watery and dim.
            —James Macpherson		  25
        Sad as the wind that sighs
Through cypress trees under rainy skies.
            —Philip B. Marston		  26
  Sad as the shriek of the midnight blast.
            —Gerald Massey		  27
  Sad as wailing winds.
            —Gerald Massey		  28
  Sad as the last line of a brave romance.
            —George Meredith		  29
  Sad … as the ghostly past.
            —Owen Meredith		  30
Sad my thoughts as willows bending,
O’er the borders of the tomb.
            —George P. Morris		  31
  Sad as tears to the eyes that are bright.
            —A. J. Ryan		  32
            Sad
Like the echo mad
Of some plaintive spirit strain.
            —Francis S. Saltus		  33
  Sad as night.
            —William Shakespeare		  34
  Sad as a lump of lead.
            —Edmund Spenser		  35
  Sad as twilight on the deep.
            —George Sterling		  36
  Sad as a soul estranged.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  37
  Sad as a wintry withering moon.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  38
  Bare and sad as banishment.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  39
  Sad as doom.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  40
  Sadder than a banquet skeleton.
            —Frederick Tennyson		  41
 
 
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