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Quotes About Sorrow

it's all one single grief.
~ Du Fu
If the world were flat like a magic carpet, our sorrow would have a beginning and an end. If the world were square, we would lie low in a corner when the war plays "hide and seek." If the world were round, our dreams would take turns on the ferris wheel, and we would be equal.
~ Dunya Mikhail
If the world were flat, like a flying carpet, our sorrow would have a beginning and an end. If the world were square, we'd lie low in a corner whenever the war plays hide and seek. If the world were round, our dreams would take turns on the Ferris wheel, and we'd all be equal.
~ Dunya Mikhail
There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
That was and still is the great disaster of my life-that lovely, lovely little boy.
~ Dwight D Eisenhower
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm afraid a boat so small would sink with the weight of all my sorrow.
~ Li Qingzhao
Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void.
~ Pam Brown
I wake up every single night wondering what I could have done differently. This is a pain that will stay with me the rest of my life.
~ Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.
~ Philip Yancey
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
~ Eddie Vedder
Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.
~ Carly Simon
A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.
~ Paul Verlaine
I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away.
~ Elizabeth Siddal
Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
~ Samuel Johnson
No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.
~ Tammara Webber
How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
~ Paul Celan
He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.
~ John Bunyan
There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.
~ Lucian
Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
For every laugh, there should be a tear.
~ Walt Disney Company
This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.
~ Justin Cronin, The Twelve
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe