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Quotes About Sorrow

The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow," says my father Lucifer. "For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers to God go without answers.
~ Robert Nye
The man gave me a stack of papers and said that one of the most painful things about death was the paperwork. I
~ Robert Olen Butler
Your pain pained me.
~ Robert Silverberg
Indragostita de propria-i nenorocire
~ Robert Southey
Then, as I fell, I heard Tessie's soft cry and her spirit fled: and even while falling I longed to follow her, for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.
~ Robert W. Chambers
All that is fair shall pass away; all that I love, all that I fear for—these shall the doctor take away, lifting them from my memory on the point of a steel blade. What has he to give in return? A hell of vapour, distorting sight; a hell of sound, drowning the soul.
~ Robert W. Chambers
Listening to music, I always have exactly the same feeling: something's missing. Never will I learn the cause of this gentle sadness, never will I wish to investigate it.
~ Robert Walser
One without attachment is free from sorrow.
~ Robert Wolfe
Sin embargo, Erdosain no se movía de allí… Quería decirles algo, no sabía cómo, pero algo que les diera a comprender a ellos toda la desdicha inmensa que pesaba sobre su vida; y permanecía así, de pie, triste, con el cubo negro de la caja de hierro ante los ojos, sintiendo que a medida que pasaban los minutos su espalda se arqueaba más, mientras que nerviosamente retorcía el ala de su sombrero negro, y la mirada se le hacía más huida y triste.
~ Roberto Arlt
Me verá una doncella, una niña alta, pálida y concentrada, que por capricho maneje su Rolls-Royce. Paseará tristemente. De pronto me mira y comprende que yo seré el único amor de toda la vida, y esa mirada que era un ultraje para todos los desdichados, se posará en mí, cubiertos los ojos de lágrimas. El ensueño se desenroscaba sobre
~ Roberto Arlt
To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world
~ Roberto Benigni
Right now you can cry and let your image dissolve on the windshields of cars parked along the Boardwalk. But you can't lose yourself.
~ Roberto Bolano
El humor no debe ser risa. Sí, sonrisa. Y, de ser posible, llanto amargo.
~ Roberto Fontanarrosa
I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.
~ Robin Hobb
Sorrow and loss never die. We can put them away in a chest and lock it tight, but whenever it is opened, even a crack, the aroma of lost sweetness will rise to fill our lungs to heaviness.
~ Robin Hobb
When we are children, we believe that our elders know all and that even when we cannot understand the world, they can make sense of it. Even after we are grown, in moments of fear or sorrow, we still turn instinctively to the older generation, hoping to finally learn some great hidden lesson about death and pain. Only to learn instead that the only lesson is that life goes on.
~ Robin Hobb
The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence;
~ Robin Hobb
In the dead of night I stirred. Wakefulness flowed back into me. I was a cup full of sorrow, but that sorrow was stilled, like a pain that abates as long as one does not move.
~ Robin Hobb
He thought perhaps it was a woman's way, to come out of such a storm of emotion and pain as if she were a ship emerging onto calm seas. She had seemed, not at peace, but emptied of sorrow. As if she had run out of that particular emotion and no other one arose to take its place.
~ Robin Hobb
Sound seemed muted, and night darker, scent and taste dulled. It was as if the world had been robbed of its brightness. He had left me behind to dwell alone in a dimmed and stale place.
~ Robin Hobb
Men cannot grieve as dogs do.
~ Robin Hobb
For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.
~ Robin Hobb
This was misery that could not yield, for he sorrowed for a time he could not return to, and a self he would never again be.
~ Robin Hobb
Somewhere beneath the tides of those superficial emotions she knew the cold deep current of her grief sought to pull her down and drown her.
~ Robin Hobb