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Quotes About Sorrow

I slowly stand, looking down at my clothes. I wish that there were bloodstains or tears, something to outwardly show how hurt I am.
~ Suzanne Young
Realm swayed and put his hand over his heart, watching after her. A sharp pain from knowing that you want something you don't deserve. That you can never have again.
~ Suzanne Young
I wish that there were bloodstains or tears, something to outwardly show how hurt I am.
~ Suzanne Young
I'm somewhat depressive.
~ John Sandford
Sometimes I'm sad and mostly I like sad songs.
~ Nico
Sad songs are what move people.
~ Lorrie Morgan
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
~ Thomas Moore
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
~ Abu Bakr
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
~ Honore de Balzac
Genius is sorrow's child.
~ John Adams
I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.
~ Karyn Kusama
I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'
~ Matt Bellamy
There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.
~ Mary Oliver
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
~ Alexandre Vinet
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
~ John Webster
In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.
~ Gautham Menon
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
~ Saint Bernard
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.
~ William Godwin
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
~ David Hume
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
~ Amelia Barr
Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.
~ Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.
~ Joni Mitchell
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel