Sara Teasdale Quotes

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Heartbreak is good fuel for country songs. And cheating.

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

Falling in love is awesome, but I'm never drawn to happy songs per se, so whenever you sit down to write a heartbreak song and you're happily in love, it's like, 'OK, now I have to go back to a sad place to get something good.'

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.