Quotes About Sorrow

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.

Death is the mother of beauty.

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify.

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

I write to shed my sacred sorrows.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.