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Quotes About Sorrow

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
~ John Scalzi
Oh, I've a love, a true, true love, who waits upon yon shore... and if my love won't be my love, then I will live no more.
~ Libba Bray
Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.
~ Lord Byron
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.
~ Marcel Proust
I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.
~ Quentin Dupieux
I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--
~ Orson Scott Card
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.
~ Sara Teasdale
Unrequited love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there.
~ Shannon Wheeler
Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it's all there.
~ Gail Tsukiyama
There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
~ George Eliot
I'm a big fan of the Harry Potter books, but I'd love to do one where one of the kids dies, or one of the main characters dies. I love for those things to have a little bit more tragedy.
~ Guillermo del Toro
You love him so much it feels like you can't go on without him. You feel like you might die without him.
~ James Patterson
And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.
~ Jane Green
Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.
~ Jean Anouilh
You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.
~ Jodi Picoult
Sadness of love without release.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.
~ K.J. Parker
Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!
~ Kenneth Rand
That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Love is Fallen.... Like *FALLEN* ANGELS.
~ Lauren Kate
Oh, no! my heart can never be Again in lightest hopes the same; The love that lingers there for thee Hath more of ashes than of flame.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon