Jacqueline Carey Quotes

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

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.

First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.

Pearls mean tears.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

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

In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.

I am sorry I could not see my father.