Anne Carson Quotes

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

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

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

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I'm always weeping at something or other.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

In the early days, it was, you know, I used to weep while I was writing. I used to grab at any kind of anything, any hint, any tip of how to make it easy.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

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

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

I write a lot of sad songs!

I get really homesick inside.

I love writing sad songs.

I'm always sad.

Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my surface hid. Smiling in the crowd I try, but in a lonely room I cry.