Quotes About Sorrow

Surely there comes a moment in every human's life when he or she says, like the Sibyl - I wish to die.

As I write this it sounds rather negative and hard but I do not mean it to be so. Happiness grounded in reality is far deeper than that built upon fantasy, and suffering teaches one that happiness can catch a person unawares in the midst of deprivation and desolation. There is a certain stripping away of the externals which makes one more sensitive to joy as well as to sorrow.

It's not any fun in the dark," he said, and she saw his eyes brimming with tears that glistened in the moonlight. She really felt sorry for him—even she. For what could be more pitiful than a voyeur in the dark?

He could do little. Brandy might help, he thought, but when he poured some into the hurt man's mouth it ran back out again. Presently a colonel, Johnston's chief of staff, came hurrying into the ravine. But he could do nothing either. He knelt down facing the general. "Johnston, do you know me? Johnston, do you know me?" he kept asking, over and over, nudging the general's shoulder as he spoke. But Johnston did not know him. Johnston was dead.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

Held on to me like I was a baby. And she kept crying. So many tears. My clothes and hair were soaked with her tears. It was, like, my mother had given me a grief shower, you know? Like she'd baptized me with her pain.

No, Miss Warren said. Your sister, she's dead

I cry because I'm crying.

cry huge, gasping tears.

But mostly it feels sad, often hopeless, and hot with loneliness.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Stars aren't supposed to cry. They're supposed to laugh. (Zarek) How can I laugh when I have no heart? (Astrid) You have a heart. (He placed her hand over his.) One that only beats for you, princess. (Zarek)

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.

Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn)

I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn't know it. I let stupidity blind me and I lost him because of that. (Artemis) Then tell him you're sorry. (Kat) As your father would say, there are some things 'sorry' can't repair. Some pains run too deep to ever be healed by something as simple as words, no matter how much you mean them. (Artemis)

Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.

You'll never see the moments coming that will forever mutilate your life—at least not until after they've mowed you down. —SAVITAR Acheron

Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. (Acheron)

How do you know that? (Stryker) I know everything. I feel every heartbeat in the universe. Hear every scream for mercy and feel every tear of pain. (Jared)

I'm giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It's too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)

Rocking her gently in his arms, Wulf wondered which of them had it worse. The mother who wouldn't live to see the baby grow, or the father who was damned to watch the baby and all those after him die.' (Wulf)

Even the Devil may cry when he looks around Hell and realizes he's alone.

Searing with intelligence, they showed her a soul that was tainted by betrayal. One completely devoid of trust. And in that one single moment, she felt his sorrow inside her own heart. He wanted to trust someone. He wanted to reach out. But he'd forgotten how. Alone and cold, he was pain personified.