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Quotes About Sorrow

They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of them. But that would be later. Lay Ter.
~ Arundhati Roy
Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
~ William Shakespeare
I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.
~ Rita Rudner
I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.
~ Toni Morrison
I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
~ W. P. Kinsella
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
~ William Faulkner
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
~ William Shakespeare
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
~ Julian Barnes
It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.
~ Justin Cronin
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away
~ Kim Wilde
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
~ Laini Taylor
Once upon a time, an angel lay dying in the mist. And a devil knelt over him and smiled.
~ Laini Taylor
I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.
~ Lauren Oliver
This comes with my/our deepest sympathy, and the hope that the dear memories of your loved one and the passing of time will ease your sorrow.
~ Margaret Jones
The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.
~ Markus Zusak
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.
~ Mark Twain
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
~ Mark Twain
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
~ Mark Twain
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven.
~ Mark Twain
Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.
~ Mark Twain
That which I have seen, in that little moment, will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the nights, till I die. Would God I had been blind!
~ Mark Twain
Perdón es el aroma que la violeta deja en el zapato que la aplastó.
~ Mark Twain
She warn't particular; she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about just so it was sadful. Every time a man died, or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with her "tribute" before he was cold. She called them tributes.
~ Mark Twain