W. H. Auden Quotes

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

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.

Most of life is sad.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

There are so many reasons to be sad in the club.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Grief is exhausting.

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

I'm so involved in melancholy.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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.

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

It was the saddest day of my life.

It looked like everything worth living for was gone. The entire country was depressed -- there was no hope.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery