Alfred Austin Quotes

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

It is a very vulnerable feeling to lose something very close to your heart or someone very dear to you.

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.

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

I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away

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

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

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.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

Pearls mean tears.

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

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.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

I was a very sad little girl.

Most of life is sad.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.