Anne Sexton Quotes

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

I think it's tragic that we have this human capacity, which appears to be hardwired, or so the evolutionary biologists say, for collective joy. We have these techniques for generating it that go back thousands of years, and yet we tend not to use this.

Happiness is only real when shared.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I thought they loved me, and they would scarcely have known it if I had died. All through our troubles, I was comforted with the thought that the brethren in Maulmain and America were praying for us, and they have never once thought of us.

If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

My cards and flowers always got rejected on Valentines Day.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Joys divided are increased.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

I don't win anything in life, you know what I mean? I was, like, the awkward kid who didn't go to prom, but I did - nobody noticed, though.

Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

An unshared happiness is not happiness.