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Quotes About Sorrow

I pushed your boat out of the gentle stream where you were merrily singing and rowing Forgive me life is but a nightmare
~ Gail Carson Levine
General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.
~ Gail Godwin
Lo único que me duele de morir, es que no sea de amor.
~ GARCIA MARQUEZ Gabriel
Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.
~ Ernst Toller
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
~ Monica Johnson
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
~ Petrarch
The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.
~ Thiruvalluvar
Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.
~ Thalia
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
~ Robert Greene
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
~ Anne Bronte
Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
~ Christoph Martin Wieland
It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.
~ Alex Chilton
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
~ William Shakespeare
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices.
~ Virginia Postrel
for men never know a loving woman's heart. Poor fools we are, ruled by the moon, and variable, prone to her waxing and waning, all our tides sorrow and gladness. Men never know a woman's love.
~ Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.
~ Rosie Thomas
We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.
~ Ross Lockridge, Jr.
Gertrude's remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word "Woe," which she handed out gaily declaring, "Woe is me.
~ Ross Wetzsteon
Grief was an actual weight, he thought. It felt like a physical burden. You carried it with you all day, unsheddable. Your shoulders, by nightfall, felt dragged down." p 320
~ Roxana Robinson
Imagine the thoughts of serial killer and mutilator Jeffrey Dahmer when he ended up in prison. He felt great remorse, which he confessed on several occasions. He had ruined his life beyond repair. If Wisconsin had the death penalty, he would have earned it. Who could he turn to except God? Certainly no human would hear the cries of his heart and believe the depth of his sorrow. Only God could.
~ Roy Ratcliff
Quiero expresar mi angustia en versos que abolida dirán mi juventud de rosas y de ensueños, y la desfloración amarga de mi vida por un vasto dolor y cuidados pequeños.
~ Ruben Dario
Ese es mi mal. Soñar. La poesía Es la camisa férrea de mil puntas cruentas Que llevo sobre el alma. Las espinas sangrientas Dejan caer las gotas de mi melancolía.
~ Ruben Dario
Las lamentaciones y los gemidos, los suspiros y las lágrimas son apaciguadas entre tanto por esta horrible palpitación de mi corazón; ¡ah, esta horrible palpitación!
~ Ruben Dario