Lena Horne Quotes

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

I know what it's like to lose.

Grief is exhausting.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

A loss feels like a loss.

I know how it feels to lose.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There is no love without suffering.

That's painful always to lose.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.