Sondra Radvanovsky Quotes

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

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

When we focus on our pain, our ache deepens.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

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

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

I like dark, hopeless, beautiful tragedies.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

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

In the country of pain we are each alone.

There is no love without suffering.

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 have always been attracted to the bleaker aspects of life. I love drama.

I lived and languished.

If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.