Lorrie Moore Quotes

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Just as an audience member, I've always preferred dark things and very heavy, emotional things.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

I lived and languished.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

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

I had sadness for breakfast.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

All of my books come from pain.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

Most of life is sad.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.