Tom Waits Quotes

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

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.

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

My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

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.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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

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

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

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

Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.

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

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

I miss the camera each moment and each day.

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

Some of my memories will never return. They are lost - along with the crippling feeling of defeat and hopelessness. Not a tremendous price to pay.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.