"I am now the most miserable man..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.”
“And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.”
“I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.”
More on Emotion
“When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.”
“I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.”
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
More on Sorrow
“She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.”
“sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it”
“Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.”