Quotes About Sorrow

I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.

But suddenly his daddy was there, looking at him in mortal agony, and a sorrow so great that Danny's heart flamed within his chest. The mouth drew down in a quivering bow. "Doc," Jack Torrance said. "Run away. Quick. And remember how much I love you." "No," Danny said. "Oh Danny, for God's sake—" "No," Danny said. He took one of his father's bloody hands and kissed it. "It's almost over.

This is dying - I know because I've done it before.

Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument.

It was the look of some woman in a third world country, watching as her village burned.

I the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

That John Coffey whose eyes were always streaming tears, like blood from a wound that can never heal.

Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch.

Some day, in the 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.

In the words of Phillips Brooks: Some day, in the 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.

when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.

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.

things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.

Another blast from Rivenrock shivered the air. It snatched Mhoram's head up, and he faced Covenant with tears streaming down his cheeks. It is as I have said, he breathed achingly. Madness is not the only danger in dreams.

He had burned that book too late.

No matter. All things end, in perversion and death. Sorrow belongs to those who also hope. But that Unfettered One gave his life so that you and your message and your ring might reach the Lords. This we will accomplish, so that such sacrifices may have meaning.

Before the unknown Jewish martyr, incline your head in piety and respect for all the martyrs. Incline your thoughts to accompany them along their path of sorrow. They will lead you to the highest pinnacle of justice and truth. "A quote from Justin Godart, Minister of Health and Honorary President of the Committee for the Unknown Jewish Martyr

Life is miserable without you, its almost like having you here!

Pitch black again. Like someone extinguished an angel.

Scheidel concludes, "All of us who prize greater economic equality would do well to remember that with the rarest of exceptions it was only ever brought forth in sorrow. Be careful what you wish for."28

Only love and death will change all things.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.