John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

When the night falls, my lonely heart calls.

To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend,--this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts.

It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.