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Quotes About Sorrow

One inch of love is an inch of ashes.
~ Li Shangyin
The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?
~ Lisa Ann Sandell
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
~ Lord Byron
There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.
~ Margaret Deland
Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.
~ Marilyn Hacker
I'm so sorry for loving you, I'm so sorry.... But it was such a wonderful dream, my love, such a wonderful dream.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
If we didn't love things, then we couldn't feel their loss. The flip side of loving is losing. I mean, you can't experience one without the other.
~ Melissa Holbrook Pierson
It's always difficult to watch someone you love die.
~ Mitch Albom
He was taken to St. Lawrence Hospital and died the next day. He never regained consciousness.
~ Bill Bryson
Nada nos puede consolar cuando lo pensamos detenidamente.
~ Blaise Pascal
Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?
~ Bob Dylan
I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.
~ Bob Dylan
Oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door- Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow. Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore- You may not see me tomorrow.
~ Bob Dylan
Oh, sister, am I not a brother to you And one deserving of affection? And is our purpose not the same on this earth To love and follow his direction? ... Oh, sister, when I come to knock on your door Don't turn away, you'll create sorrow Time is an ocean but it ends at the shore You may not see me tomorrow
~ Bob Dylan
You drink bitter water And you been eating the bread of sorrow You can't live for today When all you're ever thinking of is tomorrow The path you've endured has been rough When you've decided that you've had enough, then Ye shall be changed, ye shall be changed In a twinkling of an eye, when the last trumpet blows The dead will arise and burst out of your clothes And ye shall be changed
~ Bob Dylan
I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be. Depressed
~ Bohumil Hrabal
But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.
~ Boris Pasternak
If you go near her or touch her with your finger, a spark will light up the room and either kill you on the spot or electrify you for your whole life with a magnetically attractive, plaintive craving and sorrow.
~ Boris Pasternak
Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.
~ Boris Pasternak
Por la ventana se veían los largos regueros de lágrimas del crepúsculo en las negras mejillas de las nubes.
~ Boris Vian
Pocas cosas se te clavan tan adentro como las lágrimas de un padre.
~ Brad Meltzer
When she's next to him, when she rests her hand on his, his whole body aches with something like knowledge for all he has lost, the chances he will never have, to return such a touch, to fall of a horse or eat chinese food or shoot a crossbow (which has always been one of his most dear wishes), to receive a letter in the mail, to be kissed with longing or punched in the jaw.
~ Brady Udall