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Quotes About Sorrow

Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You'll never get back.
~ Caryl Churchill
Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don't punish me by taking Ned. Keep him safe that's all I ask. That's all I'll ever ask again, just keep him safe.
~ Catherine Cookson
This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.
~ Cathie Pelletier
Mattie felt drained, as though someone had stood her on her head and poured her entire heart and soul right out of her body.
~ Cathie Pelletier
Instead of blue skies and sunshine, there are grey clouds and endless rain that seeps into your bones, your soul.
~ Cathy Cassidy
Scent of jasmine and tears
~ Cathy Cassidy
Nothing is left of me Each time I see her
~ Catullus
Alone because love was one of those feelings that you could never have control of. And she needed to be in control. She had loved before, had been loved, had tasted what it was to dream, and had felt what it was to dance on air. She had also learned what it was to cruelly land back on the earth with a thud.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Holly just felt as though she was missing a vital organ from her body.
~ Cecelia Ahern
Envious, cold, and lonely. The perfect ingredients for a nice homemade bitter pie.
~ Cecelia Ahern
This afternoon it rains as never before; and I don't feel like staying alive, heart. This afternoon is pleasant. Why shouldn't it be? It is wearing grace and pain; it is dressed like a woman.
~ César Vallejo
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
~ Cesare Pavese
Disorder and frequent sorrow the mulch for creativity.
~ Chaim Potok
the most wretched of sights, the just-crushed spirit.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.
~ Charlaine Harris
Angélique Sookie, toi qui es la beauté et la grâce incarnées, pardonne-moi. Je suis accablé à l'idée que cette ménade malfaisante et démoniaque ait pu oser violenter ce corps parfait et voluptueux qui est le tien, dans l'intention de faire parvenir un message à mon indigne et misérable personne.
~ Charlaine Harris
Even witches sing the blues
~ Charlaine Harris
The murder of a child was the worst of crimes, in my book, the absolute rock bottom of evil.
~ Charlaine Harris
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Ne cherchez plus mon cÅ"ur; des monstres l'ont mangé.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Melancholy is no bad thing.
~ Sting
Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
~ Susan Sontag
If you learn to practice love, compassion, joy, and equanimity, you will know how to heal the illnesses of anger, sorrow, insecurity, sadness, hatred, loneliness, and unhealthy attachments.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When we walk, we can walk for our ancestors and future generations. Maybe they had to walk with sorrow; perhaps they were forced to march or migrate. When we walk freely, we are walking for them.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh