“The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.”— William Cullen Bryant
“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.”— Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
“I get up between 7 and 9 in the morning. I have a glass of vodka and then I cry for two hours.”— Jeffrey Bernard
“All the time the flapper is laughing and dancing, there's a feeling of tragedy underneath. She's unhappy and disillusioned, and that's why she's so reckless.”— Clara Bow
“Someone was playing a record of a lonely violin playing a song of a lonely violin.”— Richard Brautigan
“All the blues is, is a good man feelin' bad, thinkin' about the woman he once was with.”— Big Bill Broonzy