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Quotes About Sorrow

Money was no cure for sorrow, Alec reflected, but it did allow one to grieve in relative comfort.
~ Stephen King
Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
~ Stephen King
Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.
~ Stephen King
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
~ Stephen King
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
~ Stephen King
Hearts don't really break. If only they could.
~ Stephen King
If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.
~ Stephen King
Some commit slow suicide with the sweet poison of their memories.
~ Javier Enríquez Serralde
Loneliness is like a big, empty room inside you that echoes with the sounds of the life you're not living.
~ Leisa Rayven, Mr. Romance
Loneliness is a shadow of death
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reality tastes like ashes
~ Azereth Skivel
The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.
~ Khalid Farooq
This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears.
~ Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
No weight in her pockets and far too much heaviness in her heart.
~ Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This… this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.
~ Beth Revis, The Body Electric
I share my happiness and sorrowCos I know for once there will be no tomorrowIf I wish to live in your memoriesI too have to be there to share your worriesSpeak up to your friend, am just a call away
~ Prashant Balan
The tears we shed are sacred prayers.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The only loss is death.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.
~ Andrew the Apostle
You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.
~ Chet Baker
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
~ Leonard Cohen
When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.
~ Muriel Barbery
I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.
~ Franz Kafka