Oscar Wilde Quotes

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

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.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

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

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

I know what it's like to lose.

I know how it feels to lose.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

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

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

In the country of pain we are each alone.