Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

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

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

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

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

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

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.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I lived and languished.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

I had sadness for breakfast.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

Most of life is sad.

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