The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Even those who never frown eventually break down.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.
There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.
I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
Why am I dying to live if I’m just living to die.
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
Smile, it’s easier than explaining why you’re sad.
The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint.
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
I miss my mother very, very much.
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.