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Quotes About Sorrow

Amaba a los hombres y siempre los había amado. Ansiaba abrazarlos, mezclar con el de ellos su ser. Ahora que había perdido al hombre que correspondía a su amor, admitía aquello.
~ E.M. Forster
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form...
~ E.M. Forster
A trouble — nothing as beautiful as a sorrow — rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank.
~ E.M. Forster
Differences, eternal differences, planted by God in a single family, so that there may always be colour; sorrow perhaps, but colour in the daily grey.
~ E.M. Forster
He has been sitting here looking at me more in sorrow than in anger for the better part of an hour, and I've made up my mind to one thing. I shall have no more secrets from the police.
~ Earl Derr Biggers
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength. —A. J. Cronin
~ Earnie Larsen
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
~ Ecclesiastes
There's a particular type of alone you feel when in a room with someone who's no longer alive, she's discovering now, and it is the worst kind.
~ Eddie Robson
Miss me, but let me go.
~ Edgar A. Guest
Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
And when, amid no earthly moans,Down, down that town shall settle hence,Hell, rising from a thousand thrones,Shall do it reverence.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
This is life's sorrow: That one can be happy only where two are; And that our hearts are drawn to stars Which want us not.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Zane," I whispered breathlessly, knowing it was wrong, but powerless to stop myself. "If things were different... if you were alive... and I was alive-" "Yes," he said immediately, interrupting me. He leaned in closer. His voice was no more than a whisper. "Absolutely, yes. Don't ever doubt it, Kail.
~ Edie Claire
He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.
~ Edith Hamilton
He was there beside her; yet she was far away from him, alone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
~ Edith Hamilton
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
~ Edith Wharton
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
~ Edith Wharton
For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: "I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.
~ Edmund Morris
I hate the day, because it lendeth lightTo see all things, and not my love to see.
~ Edmund Spenser
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
~ Edmund Spenser
one louing howre For many yeares of sorrow can dispence: A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre
~ Edmund Spenser
He believes, but he does not believe: the impossibility of believing is the impossibility which he accepts most reluctantly, but still it is there with the other impossibilities of this world which is too full of weeping for a child to understand.
~ Edmund Wilson