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Quotes About Sorrow

her eyes closed against some unimagined darkness, where she is buried in an ache in which nothing makes sense.
~ Joy Harjo
That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can't confront it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Marianne's face was streaked with tears that glistened like acid and her skin was drained of color and she could not bring herself to look at Dr. Oakley behind his desk, nor at Corrine.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Y después el sollozo. Otra vez el llanto suave pero agudo, y la pena haciendo retroceder su cuerpo. —Han matado a tu padre. —¿Y a ti quién te mató, madre?
~ Juan Rulfo
Her iç çekiÅŸ insan?n yitirdiÄŸi bir yudum yaÅŸamd?r.
~ Juan Rulfo
La tierra, «este valle de lágrimas»
~ Juan Rulfo
Eso es malo. Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.
~ Juan Rulfo
Salió fuera y miró el cielo. Llovían estrellas. Lamentó aquello porque hubiera querido ver un cielo quieto. Oyó el canto de los gallos. Sintió la envoltura de la noche cubriendo la tierra. La tierra, "este valle de lágrimas".
~ Juan Rulfo
I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow
~ Wallace Stegner
Going up the path she felt that she was crying silently inside, drowning in desolate unshed tears.
~ Wallace Stegner
Another Weeping Woman Pour the unhappiness out From your too bitter heart, Which grieving will not sweeten. Poison grows in this dark. It is in the water of tears Its black blooms rise. The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world Leaves you With him for whom no phantasy moves, And you are pierced by a death.
~ Wallace Stevens
The greatest griefs are silent.
~ Wally Lamb
Nought but vast sorrow was there—The sweet cheat gone.
~ Walter de La Mare
Away There is no sorrow Time heals never; No loss, betrayal, Beyond repair. Balm for the soul, then, Though grave shall sever Lover from loved And all they share. See the sweet sun shines The shower is over; Flowers preen their beauty, The day how fair! Brood not too closely On love, on duty; Friends long forgotten May wait you where Life with death Brings all to an issue; None will long mourn for you, Pray for you, miss you, Your place left vacant, You not there.
~ Walter de La Mare
In failure or in success, in health or sickness, in sorrow or joy, man must turn to God, must trust in God, believing in him more each day, loving him more each day, in preparation for a future life with him.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Er dachte bereits daran, in sein Gasthaus der Tränen zu gehen und sich dort aufzuhängen, an einem Strick aus Traumfäden.
~ Walter Moers
paroxysms of weeping.
~ Walter Moers
It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.
~ Walter Mosley
Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
~ Walter Savage Landor
With a smile on her lips, and a tear in her eye.
~ Walter Scott
But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
~ Walton Goggins
She sat for a few minutes in the company of her bitter regrets...
~ Wanda E. Brunstetter
The author Karen Blixen once said, "All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." But what if a person can't tell a story about his sorrows? What if his story tells him?
~ Warren Zanes