Quotes About Sorrow

Ni siquiera podré dejarla—pensó amargamente—: no, no puedo. Excepto por la puerta de la muerte, soy incapaz de separarme de ella. Pero lo que exista entre nosotros de ahora en adelante será como un valioso jarrón roto al caer al suelo y que ha sido hábilmente reparado, rehecho. Pero, ¡Dios santo, qué aspecto tan lamentable tienen las grietas a la luz del día!

When you stop time, you don't accept your sorrows. When you stop time, you want everything to be the way it was before.

"Like a dog!" he said. It seemed as if his shame would live on after him.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

Valence passa une main sur ses yeux et quitta la fenêtre. -L'alcool est là, lui dit Néron en tendant les bras.

I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful

Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes.

Sorrow is a sanctuary as long as self is kept outside. [...] let us not foster, embrace, rekindle and indulge our grief. For then our sorrow is a selfish and luxurious fiction, a ground in which the Holy Spirit will not dig.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior weary me.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim." --

Te vas? No. Alas rotas.

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason / as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

But we cannot go back to the life we shared with you yesterday, a life which you will spread before us so temptingly when you return. We have suffered too much to believe any more that the way to what we see as the Absolute can go in any other direction than through the deep valley of sorrow. Hell has not opened before our eyes to no purpose, and he who has once seen it cannot find his way back to earthly symposiums.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

The light shall always rise upon thee after the darkness; and after sorrow, joy shall again visit thy threshold. Nor

I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

What sorrow is like to the sorrow of one who is alone?

The world is a drought when out of love.

I'm sorry for taking your life, friend.

The sensation—it's not sorrow, but something deeper—of being broken. Of being crushed so often, and so hatefully, that emotion becomes something you can only wish for. If only you could cry, because then you'd feel something. Instead, you feel nothing. Just . . . haze and smoke inside. Like you're already dead.