George Santayana Quotes

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Most of life is sad.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

I lived and languished.

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

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

I had sadness for breakfast.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

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

It was the saddest day of my life.

If a documentary crew were to follow me around, they'd probably think they were making a film about the saddest person in the world.

I'm here to be lovesick, broke and drifting, writing heartache songs and singing about pain and misery and depression, with a few good times here and there.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)