Kris Kristofferson Quotes

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.

To come so far, to lose so much and to find nothing. -Jing-mei

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

A very powerful theme in fiction is that of loss.

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

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

Sometimes when you have lost, you don't want to speak to anybody.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

She looked back to see Sam standing there at the edge of the strip of sunlight inside Common Grounds, staring after her with an expression on his face like he'd lost his best- his only friend.

I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All I did was think about Jennie Gerhardt and Alice Quinn and all the decades of people I had known. The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something's bound to turn up.

Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been.