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Quotes About Sorrow

Their intense happiness isolated them from all the rest of the world, and they only spoke in broken words, which are the tokens of a joy so extreme that they seem rather the expression of sorrow.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Delay only increases the sorrow of parting.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I have descended from a planet, called grief.
~ Alexandre Dumas
But such was his state of mind that two bottles were not enough to extinguish his thoughts; so he remained, too drunk to fetch any more wine, not drunk enough to forget, seated in front of his two empty bottles, with his elbows on a rickety table, watching all the specters that Hoffman scattered across manuscripts moist with punch, dancing like a cloud of fantastic black dust in the shadows thrown by his long-wicked candle.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Her sobs and tears were so vehement that her brothers' grief seemed cold beside hers. Nobody suspected a crime, so no autopsy was held; the tomb was closed, and not the slightest suspicion had approached her.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Oh, Mercédès, I have uttered your name with the sigh of melancholy, with the groan of sorrow, with the last effort of despair; I have uttered it when frozen with cold, crouched on the straw in my dungeon; I have uttered it, consumed with heat, rolling on the stone floor of my prison.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the
~ Alexandre Dumas
Hayat, filozofun gülerek çektiÄŸi ve çeÅŸitli ac?lardan meydana gelen bir tesbihe benzer. Siz de benim gibi filozof olun biraz, gelin masaya içelim ÅŸimdi; hiçbir ÅŸey hayat? bir bardak ÅŸarab?n ard?ndan gözüktüÄŸü kadar toz pembe gösteremez.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Satan, murmura-t-elle, aide une pauvre reine pour qui Dieu ne veut plus rien faire
~ Alexandre Dumas
Tienes razón – dijo sin mirarla –. Soy venenoso... Pero te amo. Soy el hombre equivocado, pero te amo. Es muy pronto, sólo unas horas, pero te amo. Odio demasiado, lastimo demasiado porque soy venenoso... y te amo. Es mejor que me vaya. Buenas noches»
~ Alfred Bester
And all through that night of age-long agony the gray figure stood, still as a statue, at the foot of the stairs. Only, when, with the first chill breath of the morning, a dry, quick-quenched sob of a strong man sorrowing for the helpmeet of a score of years, and a tiny cry of a new-born child wailing because its mother was not, came down to his ears, the Gray Watchman dropped his head upon his bosom, and, with a little whimpering note, crept back to his blanket.
~ Alfred Ollivant
Life is a mystery, and it should be so, for the sorrow that accompanies being human and the choices one will have to make are a burden, too heavy for most to know before their time comes.
~ Alice Hoffman
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
~ Alice Hoffman
In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
~ Alice Hoffman
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
~ Alice Hoffman
That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness.
~ Alice Hoffman
She had lost some of who she was when she lost her beloved.
~ Alice Hoffman
She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.
~ Alice Hoffman
Abra DeMadrigal didn't look young enough to be my sister anymore. Her sorrow weighed her down and aged her. She was still beautiful, but she looked very far away. No wonder our people had raven eyes, so distant, so sad. No matter how wise she was, my mother looked like a woman who hadn't truely believed how much evil there was in our world. Not until this moment.
~ Alice Hoffman
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
~ Alice Hoffman
Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.
~ Alice Hoffman
She thought she could have what she wanted; she thought she could see the world from above, as if it were a distant blue ball whose sorrows had nothing to do with her. She had wanted to be a bird, but now she knew, as she looked out the window to see Lewis following, that even birds are chained to earth by their needs and desires.
~ Alice Hoffman
is simply the way of the world to lose everything you have ever loved.
~ Alice Hoffman
When you have lost your mother you have lost the world.
~ Alice Hoffman