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Quotes About Sorrow

In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.
~ Noah Webster
Seems it's my destiny for love to cause me misery.
~ Pink
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
~ Roald Dahl
Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
~ Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds
My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody.
~ Robert Burns
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
~ Anne Fortier, Juliet
One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
~ Abigail McCarthy
So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.
~ Alanis Morissette
Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.
~ Albert Camus
The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
~ Albert Camus
Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.
~ Alice Hoffman
What else is there to write about than love and loss?
~ Alice Hoffman
Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.
~ Alice Hoffman
I love depressing movies and depressing books.
~ Amy Sedaris
There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.
~ Richard Hovey
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Why must I be lonely in love?
~ Dan Fogelberg
Yes," I said, "for the love of God!
~ Edgar Allan Poe
If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.
~ Giannina Braschi
Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.
~ Johannes von Tepl
We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.
~ John Green