O. Henry Quotes

I have a lot of bad days.

Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

It's harder to laugh than to cry.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.

No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness.

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

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.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

Some crave grief like strong drink.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

I'm really happy with my life now, but there's a lot of stuff I feel very sad about in ways I can't even control.

Living, it can be sad too.

Because if she let go of her grief even for a minute it would only hit her harder when she bumped into it again.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.