Chandler Massey Quotes

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

It's not been a pleasant life.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

None think the great unhappy, but the great.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

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?

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

Most of life is sad.

I love the tragic side. I don't do 'happy' onstage. I like the dark, the disturbed.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

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

I lived and languished.

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

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