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Quotes About Sorrow

That made Richard leave her, to walk back over the hill. After a moment Jerott rose and walked back also, to meet Adam and Kate and say what had to be said to Sybilla. That now she had one son only living. That Francis, the best loved of the three, had now left her.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Someone sobbed. Someone said, 'It is finished. Remember me no longer; or my children, or my children's children.'
~ Dorothy Dunnett
So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live…live….Wait for me, new, frightened soul. And though the world should reel to a puny death, and the wolves are appointed our godfathers, I will not fail you, ever.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Lymond moved swiftly from Jerott's side to where the fine hair, curling like silk, lay on the Geomaler's arm; and bending his head, kissed the dead child, as he had not kissed the living, full on the mouth.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
She suffered much from the adjacent presence of her daughter-in-law, whose misfortune it was to become disagreeable when she was unhappy--perhaps the heaviest curse that can be laid on man, who is born to sorrow.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
~ Dorothy Parker
My love runs by like a day in June, And he makes no friends of sorrows. He'll tread his galloping rigadoon In the pathway of the morrows. He'll live his days where the sunbeams start, Nor could storm or wind uproot him. My own dear love, he is all my heart, -- And I wish somebody'd shoot him.
~ Dorothy Parker
Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray
~ Dorothy Parker
Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.
~ Dorothy Parker
And when it ends, only those places where you have known sorrow are kindly to you. If you revisit the scenes of your happiness, your heart must burst of its agony. And
~ Dorothy Parker
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, or a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient Champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope, and a sock in the eye.
~ Dorothy Parker
ANECDOTE So silent I when love was by He yawned, and turned away; But sorrow clings to my apron-strings, I have so much to say.
~ Dorothy Parker
If all the tears you shed so lavishly Were gathered, as they left each brimming eye. And were collected in a crystal sea, The envious ocean would curl up and dry -
~ Dorothy Parker
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
~ Douglas Adams
Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he found he was sobbing for his mother.
~ Douglas Adams
It's easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there's a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.
~ Douglas Adams
Eight hours West sat a man alone on a beach mourning an inexplicable loss. He could only think of his loss in little packets of grief at a time, because the whole thing was too great to be borne.
~ Douglas Adams
maladjusted, socially isolated, sad, hunched, emotional cripple.
~ Douglas Adams
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment.
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it.
~ Douglas Adams
Wearily I sit here, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence of course. And infinite sorrow.
~ Douglas Adams
Glapitonner: profondément ému par le récit d'une tragédie personnelle.
~ Douglas Adams
Kendini afallam??, yapayaln?z ve sevgisiz hissediyordu.
~ Douglas Adams
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and dissappointment. Learn to be with the joy of the moment.
~ Douglas Adams