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Quotes About Sorrow

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
~ George R. R. Martin
The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
~ Georges Rodenbach
Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.
~ Giovanni Battista Guarini
This is a tragic world we live in.
~ Hans Koning
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
~ Henry Miller
If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
~ Jack Kerouac
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.
~ Jessamyn West
My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
~ Kanye West
Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
~ William Rose Benet
When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears
~ Ikechukwu Izuakor
The soul knows its sorrow.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns
~ Frank Bidart, Star Dust
Life is a sorrow, without a song.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
... ancient days of sorrowancient days of pain-heartaches of the pastslowly began to wane ...(from gleaning granules)
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
There is no greater grief, than when a parent losses a child.
~ Asa Don Brown
I don't see how anyone can find happiness in this world.
~ Denice Envall
Breathing seemed harder in the cemetery, and selfish, somehow...
~ Sheri Webber
I don't know how the poor farmers deal with such situations in real life. It's really sad.
~ Sanjay Dutt
If only sorrow could bring hope, I'd learn to live again
~ Britany Lopez