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Quotes About Sorrow

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.
~ Joe Keery
As we like to say on 'This Is Us,' death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!
~ Ron Cephas Jones
Even one death is horrible.
~ Brad Thor
Only those who have lost their parents will know what it is like. It is horrific, it is hard and it breaks your heart, it really does.
~ Steve Bruce
I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.
~ Mazie Hirono
I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence.
~ Gillian Flynn
No parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward.
~ Gillian Flynn
Natalie was buried in the family plot, next to a gravestone that already bore her parents' names. I know the wisdom, that no parents should see their child die, that such an event is like nature spun backward. But it's the only way to truly keep your child. Kids grow up, they forge more potent allegiances. They find a spouse or a lover. They will not be buried with you. The Keenes, however, will remain the purest form of family. Underground.
~ Gillian Flynn
Quando, alla fine, mia sorella era morta, mi ero sentita in parte sollevata. Avevo sempre avuto la sensazione che fosse stata introdotta a forza in questo mondo senza il dovuto equipaggiamento. Non era pronta a sopportarne il peso.
~ Gillian Flynn
Does anyone do anything profusely except apologize? Sweat, I guess.
~ Gillian Flynn
By the time my sister finally died, I was grateful in a way. It seemed to me that she'd been expelled into this world not quite formed. She was not ready for its weight. People whispered comfort about Marian being called back to heaven, but my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.
~ Gillian Flynn
My penis lay pathetically along my left thigh, like some small animal washed ashore.
~ Gillian Flynn
I pappagalli verdi li trascinano nel buio, per sempre.
~ Gino Strada
THE OBSESSION of Speer's life after Nuremberg, as I have pointed out, was Hitler's murder of the Jews. The ambivalence, however, was that while he sincerely grasped every opportunity to reiterate his sorrow and his pain at having been–the automatic formula he used–"a part of a government that committed such crimes", he was totally incapable of saying that he had known about them at the time.
~ Gitta Sereny
She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.
~ Glen Cook
In our search for a son, we lost a daughter.
~ Gloria Whelan
Down there, people would be relieved to know they're dead, and - and -' Her voice cracked. He stuck out his chin, daring her to say it. And what? And maybe we should be too, Amy blurted.
~ Gordon Korman
Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minuted to hours
~ Gordon Lightfoot
So, as the old woman held the new baby tenderly, she rained tears of sorrow and joy upon it, and the baby's first bath was the unusual mixture of love and loss. For
~ Grace Lin
A tearful queen was being led
~ Grace Lin
She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs.
~ Graham Greene
All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.
~ Graham Greene
What I've done is far worse than murder - that's an act, a blow, a stab, a shot: it's over and done, but I'm carrying my corruption around with me. It's the coating of my stomach.' He threw her wrists aside like seeds towards the stony floor. 'Never pretend I haven't shown my love.
~ Graham Greene
face a little smudged with tears. She asked, 'Was it
~ Graham Greene