Andrei Platonov Quotes

There is a lot of sadness in America.

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

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

It was the saddest day of my life.

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

Most of life is sad.

I know how it feels to lose.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

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

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.

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.

I lived and languished.

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

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

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.