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Quotes About Sorrow

The man was canny, but then he had not lost a son.
~ Storm Constantine
To be apart from Min would be like dying for him, and no gloves of fur and snakeskin could stroke away the pain.
~ Storm Constantine
You have filled me with death, with your breath of death.
~ Storm Constantine
Khaster is dead," Taropat said. "He was killed by the man you would have me serve. You are all under his spell. I pity you.
~ Storm Constantine
He, like his brother, the sad Mikha'il, had a wound above the heart that never healed.
~ Storm Constantine
Shem enfolded Daniel in his arms and rocked him like a child. He uttered a low, monotonous groan, as if in pain, then words spilled out of him like blood.
~ Storm Constantine
If I talked of Valraven Palindrake disparagingly before you went to Caradore as his bride, it was the voice of my pain.
~ Storm Constantine
There was a feyness about him, something tragic, which might be his stolen heritage.
~ Storm Constantine
Grief has become her whole being, her religion. Now, she has been told that, in part, it was a false belief.
~ Storm Constantine
Daniel found that even a serpent can weep tears.
~ Storm Constantine
Daniel was his strength, his psychic eye. But it had been plucked out.
~ Storm Constantine
Something dark had hooked itself into my heart.
~ Storm Constantine
Taziel's clothes lay strewn around the floor of the darkened room, limp ghosts of his long body fashioned in fabric.
~ Storm Constantine
My sorrows are my strength I won't share it with anyone to get rid of it
~ Sudha
Perveen should have been happy to hear these words of release; but instead, she felt a great sorrow that the one she'd believed was her kindred spirit had turned out to be such an ordinary, closed-minded man.
~ Sujata Massey
You bastard! You have brought up the sorrow my family has tried so hard to put behind us!" Cyrus shouted angrily, ignoring the constables hastening toward him.
~ Sujata Massey
I'm so sorry," he panted. "I shouldn't have done such things to a girl like you before marriage. But I want every bit of you so much. And now we know that we are meant for each other. Our marriage will be blessed with this—passion.
~ Sujata Massey
It was one of the nights which do not come often in a lifetime, and which people never forget. The darkness seems full of meaning; the hush, full of sound. God is beyond, holding the sunrise in his right hand, holding the sun of our earthly hopes as well; will it dawn in sorrow or in joy? We dare not ask; we can only wait.
~ Susan Coolidge
It is not a fragrant world.
~ Raymond Chandler
Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.
~ Thomas de Quincey
One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.
~ June Carter Cash
I lost my family, " he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. "If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.
~ Celia McMahon, Skye
I don't know how long we've sat here. All I do know is that my heart feels torn in two. Have I been here hours? Or minutes? Heartbreak is timeless".
~ M.R. Field, Splinters
Our glass train, on fragile tracksBeneath bombs that fall like the floodTo wash away the shards—But all this sorrow will recedeAnd we will leaveTwo by twoAnd until then, I will only think of you.
~ Danny M. Cohen, Train