Comfort in Sadness Quotes

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.

Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

Sometimes, when the neighborhood is silent and the sky is aswarm with the stars and the mind is swirling like a flushed toilet, a person gets to doubting himself. In the hardest times, the stand-at-the-kitchen-sink-and-stare-into-the blackness times, I put on Bob Dylan's 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time.'

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

I'm not much of a crier, actually. You know, I tend to cry and get sappy on planes.