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Quotes About Sorrow

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
~ Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
It's what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache, sorrow, and grief.
~ Colleen Hoover
Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
~ Dorothy Parker
I've given up on you...Love fades. Mine has.
~ Richelle Mead
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
~ Wilbur Smith
True sorrow is as rare as true love.
~ Stephen King, Carrie
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
~ Jodi Picoult, Mercy
sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
~ Oscar Wilde
I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?
~ Arthur Schnitzler
There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
~ John Bunyan
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
~ Sweets to the sweet.
Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.
~ Silouan the Athonite
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.
~ Kim Stanley
My heart is breaking for a little love
~ Christina Rossetti
My love is like some raven at my window with a broken wing.
~ Bob Dylan
There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.
~ John Steinbeck
I'll be drunk again to feel a little love.
~ Ed Sheeran
May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.
~ Jimi Hendrix
The World Will Break Your Heart. Grief might be, in some ways, the long aftermath of love, the internal work of knowing, holding, more fully valuing what we have lost.
~ Mark Doty
Love is the root of all joy and sorrow.
~ Meister Eckhart
The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.
~ Dorothy Parker
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
~ Andrew Vachss