Orhan Pamuk Quotes

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

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

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.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

It tore my heart out, because I heard his voice. The wolves sang slowly behind him, bittersweet harmony, but all I heard was Sam. His howl trembled, rose, fell in anguish. I listened for a long time. I prayed for them to stop, to leave me alone, but at the same time I was desperately afraid they would. Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow. When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

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

Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

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

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

It was the saddest day of my life.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

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.