Harsh Quote by William Wordsworth

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

— William Wordsworth

Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf

— Baruch Spinoza

Music is a mysterious phenomenon - it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of…

— Andrew W.K

The still, sad music of humanity.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest…

— Cornel West

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

— Sophocles

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

— Mark Twain

For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic.

— Lauv

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

— Wallace Stevens

“Music does not merely sound: It enchants. To listen to music is to give our souls to its power. We do not merely hear…

— Peter Kalkavage

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.

— Joe Bradley

Music is what feelings sound like out loud.

— Georgia Cates