Don McLean Quotes

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

To have your heart in pieces while every other aspect of your life couldn't go better is a traumatic experience. In appearance, life is fine. But as you put your day in focus, everything turns grey. What happened made me realise that complete, absolute happiness doesn't exist.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Sorrow eats your heart and courage.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

I am happy, thats just the saddest lie

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter.

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

Oh darkness, I feel like letting go.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.