Claims Quote by Lord Byron

Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out…

— Alice Cary

“Desolate’ was the most perfectly beautiful word for how she felt. Sometimes”

— Liane Moriarty

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but…

— George C. Lorimer

Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest…

— William Shakespeare

“I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air Beat upward to God’s…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear…

— Aldous Huxley

Scarcely a tear to shed; Hardly a word to say; The end of a Summer's day; Sweet Love is dead.

— William Allingham

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only…

— Dorothy Parker

Broken dreams, New or old, Crumble like dust, Beneath heavens fold, True beauty, Lies within, the saddest tears, of painful sin

— Victoria Dawn Monks

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

— Jeanette Winterson

“Self-conceit is a sentiment entirely incompatible with genuine sorrow, and it is so firmly engrafted on human nature that even the most profound sorrow…

— Leo Tolstoy

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington