Rajneesh Quotes

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

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

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

I don't wanna make something depressing, I wanna make something sorrowful.

My songs have a layer of melancholy.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

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

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.