Peter S. Beagle Quotes

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

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

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Pearls mean tears.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

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.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

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.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

A loss feels like a loss.

I know what it's like to lose.

I know how it feels to lose.

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

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn't near as lonesome as the one he left behind.

Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

I'm in mourning for my life.