Germaine Greer Quotes

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

I find Spike Jones' movies to be really very inventive and funny, but they're really sad and touching and really key into the different facets of the human experience.

I get the feeling that my songs aren't that dark. There is a cynicism but humour also - it's not depression upon depression upon depression. It's a blend.

Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.

Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

I've always been attracted to sad. If you look at Woody Allen movies, he's often playing a sad clown, and it's always been interesting. And angry clown is even more interesting.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit.