Erich Fromm Quotes

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

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

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

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

There is a lot of sadness in America.

Everybody has their pain.

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

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

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

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There is no love without suffering.

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.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano!