John Milton Quotes

I had sadness for breakfast.

Sadness can feel so unproductive.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I wear a lot of black. Like my heart.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

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'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'

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

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

I was a very sad little girl.

Most of life is sad.

There's definitely sadness happening in this band. I get melancholy every day about things.

As a boy and even now, I am wont to melancholy. I do, probably once a day, experience a sincere heartbreak.

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.