Harold Pinter Quotes

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

I think it's strange to live in a house with someone you cannot talk to-especially when that someone is your father-and the thought makes me a little sad.

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.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

I cry a lot because I miss people.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.

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

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Ever since the day you left me, I've been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

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.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

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

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.