Air Quote by William Morris

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

— Anonymous

What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

— Russell Baker

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

— Michel Foucault

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

— Sigmund Freud

“Forgoing eternally, sir, such things as, for example: two fresh-shorn lambs bleat in a new-mown field; four parallel blind-cast linear shadows creep across a…

— George Saunders

The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the…

— Emily Bronte

Words can not express the joy of new life.

— Hermann Hesse

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.

— William Shakespeare

If only…the saddest words in the English language.

— Kristan Higgins

“All too violently my heart still flows toward you—my heart, upon which my summer burns, short, hot, melancholy, overblissful; how my summer heart craves…

— Freidrich Nietzsche

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe.

— John Fletcher

“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…

— John Keats