Quotes About Sorrow
To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
~ Salman Rushdie
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After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and unexpectedly, release. Into ignominy, oblivion, married life.
~ Salman Rushdie
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The terrible fatalism which had overcome me of late had taken on an even more terrible form; drowning in the disintegration of family, of both countries to which I had belonged, of everything which can sanely be called real, lost in the sorrow of my filthy unrequited love, I sought out the oblivion of - I'm making it sound too noble; no otorund phrases must be used. Baldly, then: I rode the night-streets of the city, looking for death.
~ Salman Rushdie
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There was a deep, sad wound in him, because he was a defeated man
~ Salman Rushdie
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Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.
~ Salman Rushdie
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This is who we are. We sail away from the place we love and then because we aren't there to love it people go with axes and burning torches and smash and burn and then we say, Oh, too sad. But we abandoned it, left it to our barbarian successors to destroy.
~ Salman Rushdie
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He will never let the trial surpass the strength He gives you, and at the very moment you think yourself overwhelmed by sorrow, He will lift you up and give you peace.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
~ William Shakespeare
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There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
~ Charles Dickens
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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
~ George Sand, La Petite Fadette
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With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure
~ Frances Sargent Osgood
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Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
~ Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
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I wish I could have healed your misery, quenched your sorrow.
~ Ana Chapman
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The two stared together into a future that held as much pain as promise, as much sorrow as sunshine...
~ Ana Chapman, Leap of Faith
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All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss.
~ David Simon
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
~ Arthur Wellesley
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The truth is,' replied Dantes, 'that I am too happy for noisy mirth; ...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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could you have so little strength that you take pride in displaying your sorrow
~ Alexandre Dumas
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Beneath passion and beyond pleasure, there is always a trace of remorse.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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Oh, believe me, that when three great passions, such as sorrow, love, and gratitude fill the heart, ennui can find no place." "You
~ Alexandre Dumas
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Delays only double grief when one has to part ...
~ Alexandre Dumas
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Alas, alas!' Andrea said, with a sigh. 'One can never be completely happy in this world.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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No halfway emotions can exist in a heart swollen with utmost despair.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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he sat down in the chair and went over in his mind everything that in the past week or so had filled his cup of bitter sorrows and dark memories to overflowing.
~ Alexandre Dumas
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