Countee Cullen Quotes

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Love hurts more than hate.

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

I bleed like nobody else.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Love and despair go hand in hand.

There is no greater agony than carrying the burden of an untold story.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

Tonight, once more, life sinks its teeth into my heart.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

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

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.