Sorrow Quotes

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn’t know. I didn’t know that you were ashamed of me.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil.

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, "It's OK to be sad." I've been trained to love my darkness.

I wanted to cry, but the tears did not come.

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

I don't think she's ever coming back.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.

For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

Love sorrows are addictive as other sorrows are not.

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

My sorrow is I used to read all the time and now, as a writer, I don't have the time to read.

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human? I'm not sure. That's my answer: I'm not sure.

He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

sorrow is easier than guilt.

For there is no folly so great as keeping one's sorrows hidden.

I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.

All things are dark to sorrow.

Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.

... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

Sky of blackness and sorrow, sky of love, sky of tears. Sky of glory and sadness, sky of mercy, sky of fear.