Quotes About Sorrow

The transition from a sucking infant to a weaned child, from squalling baby to quiet son or daughter, is not smooth. It is stormy and noisy. It is no easy thing to quiet yourself: sooner may we calm the sea or rule the wind or tame a tiger than quiet ourselves. It is pitched battle. The baby is denied expected comforts and flies into rages or sinks into sulks. There are sobs and struggles. The infant is facing its first great sorrow and it is in sore distress.

One of the most interesting and remarkable things Christians learn is that laughter does not exclude weeping. Christian joy is not an escape from sorrow. Pain and hardship still come, but they are unable to drive out the happiness of the redeemed.

The dead! Why can't the dead die!

Kierkegaard famously wrote "my sorrow is my castle." Unfortunately not all of us have as much space.

Difficile è credere che sia un dono la vita, quando si trascina una stanca esistenza e il vivere d'ora in ora ci tortura; ma anche nei tuoi occhi vedo brume di dolore. Hanno già flagellato il tuo giovane cuore? E rispose per te il mare e un' ombra lieve di cormorano. Tacevi e sogguardavi mesta l'orizzonte estremo.

Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow upon themselves

Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetrywith which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grimKing's dog could not prevent me thenfrom carrying you up into the fields of light.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

And lying there, her hair in damp strands across her crumpled face, Harriet gave up the long, long struggle to love her father and her aunt. "It was for this loss above all that she wept. She had learned, during the long years of her childhood, to live without receiving love. To live without giving it seemed more than she could bear.

There was a pause. Then: "And you've got me," said Finn. Maia lifted her head and smiled at him. For a moment she felt completely happy. Then she looked at Finn's hand resting on the tiller. "But you're going away." "Yes," he said. "That's true. I'm going away.

and I attempted, above all, to get at the truth, not the masquerade that declares itself as genuineness when, habitually, the truth is invoked, but a wholesale leveling of the artifices of personality, a selfless plunge into...into what I had thought must remain forever hidden, to the substance of what I had always kept in shadow ... to that point where self becomes sorrow ...

My heart was heavy as I scrubbed her warm, sweet feminine smell from my skin and even heavier as I imagined the wounded, frightened look in her eyes when I showed up on her front step again. But all the same, I couldn't stop wanting to see her. Even if I could never have her ever again, I couldn't help myself. I loved her.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

'Biutiful' is not about death. It's about life. It's a hymn to life.

I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war, and I'll never get him back.

S'il existe une vie après la mort, qu'il me soit permis de la vivre avec toi. Je suis mort si souvent en te quittant que ma mort définitive ne me fait pas peur.

C'est par amour pour la vie que que je voudrais la quitter à temps, non sans un terrible regret. Mais je sais que tout ce que j'ai déjà perdu et tout ce qui s'en va chaque jour, ne sera remplacé par rien.

C'est par amour pour la vie que je voudrais la quitter à temps, non sans terrible regret. Mais je sais que tout ce que j'ai déjà perdu et tout ce qui s'en va chaque jour, ne sera remplacé par rien

Bad dreams are a heavy weight to carry.