Lucinda Williams Quotes

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

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

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

At the root of everything I write is tragedy.

I know how it feels to lose.

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

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

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.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

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.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

A piece of each of us died.

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.