Art Quote by Michael Leunig

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken…

— Emile Durkheim

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

— E. M. Forster

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel…

— Tao Lin

“Man detaches himself from his surroundings; he feels alone; abandoned, ignorant of everything except that he knows nothing... His first feeling thus was existential…

— Anonymous

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

— George Orwell

“Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language…

— Alain de Botton

I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was…

— Hayden Carruth

Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of…

— Diane Ackerman

“The experience of mankind on the earth is always changing as man develops and has to deal with new combinations of elements; and the…

— Edmund Wilson

“Personal angst, agony, anger, anxiety and pleasure might produce good poetry. However, to create the best, as many poets have expressed in the past,…

— Alok Mishra

In poetry, only emotion endures.

— X. J. Kennedy