Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

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

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

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

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.

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

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

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Come all ye that pass by, and see if there is any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.

There is no space wider than that of grief.

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.

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

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

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

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

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

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.