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Quotes About Sorrow

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am too dark in my heart tonight.
~ Philippa Gregory
Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.
~ Philippe Ariès
Je sais que Thomas n'a consenti à cette unique photo que parce qu'il avait compris (décidé) que c'était notre dernier moment ensemble. Il sourit pour que j'emporte son sourire avec moi.
~ Philippe Besson
Mon frère meurt.
~ Philippe Besson
Llorarlo es lanzar un puñado de vida a los ojos de la muerte. Sabes que sólo la cegará durante unos instantes, pero te alivia.
~ Philippe Claudel
Guidance only comes to the humble—to those who sorrow over their sin, and are prepared to listen and change; that is, repent. Faith
~ Phillip D. Jensen
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
~ Phillips Brooks
Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now... Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.
~ Phillips Brooks
Emotions often change by morning. A sorrow that seems unbearable in the darkness often disappears with the coming of the sun.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
Every house has its own private cup of sorrow. (3)
~ Phyllis Theroux
Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
~ Pico Iyer
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
~ Fay Wray
I know the injustice of outliving a child, the pain of a future stolen away, of mourning forever a voice you'll never hear.
~ Jill Biden
I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless.
~ Lynn Nottage
You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.
~ Amaury Nolasco
In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.
~ Alexandra Fuller
When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over. They were everything to me and my world was shattered.
~ Michel'le
The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.
~ Eddie Slovik
It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.
~ Roy Hodgson
I can't bear to think of life without Janice. I want to go first because I don't want to miss her, because that would be a pain far worse than any death.
~ Billy Crystal
weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
~ Jon Krakauer
I don't know that you ever get over this kind of loss. The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.
~ Jon Krakauer
As she studies the pictures, she breaks down from time to time, weeping as only a mother who has outlived a child can weep, betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.
~ Jon Krakauer