For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We always may be what we might have been.
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!
It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.