Quotes About Sorrow

Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

One of the hardest things I do as FBI Director is call the chiefs and sheriffs in departments around the nation when officers have been killed in the line of duty. I call to express my sorrow and offer the FBI's help.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know?

I think it's okay to talk about grief and sorrow. Especially for women, when you lose a child or have a miscarriage, it's good to talk about it, as a lot of people don't want you to speak about those things. It makes people sad, but sometimes you've got to.

Music and the blues, they have taught me a lot. I think in this book, 'Book Of Hours,' there is this blues sensibility. There are moments of humor even in the sorrow, and I'm really interested in the way that the blues have that tragic-comic view of life - what Langston Hughes called 'laughing to keep from crying.'

Twitter was an alternative community for me. A different kind of community. I knew I was making people angry. But it didn't matter, they weren't my community. But the longer I was on Twitter and the more I came to know these people, to like and respect them, the more I could see the empathy and grief and sorrow they were expressing.

I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart.

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything - from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.

I let a lot of people down, and for that I am truly sorry.

Think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross... It was a Friday filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored the Son of God.

I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.