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Quotes About Sorrow

Love is an engraved invitation to grief.
~ Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me
If he didn't love so deeply, he couldn't grieve so deeply. But he's drowning in it.
~ Dee Henderson, The Protector
When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you have not.
~ Jesikah Sundin, Elements
The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.
~ Phindiwe Nkosi
Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels....
~ Rosamund Lupton, Sister
It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely.
~ Leslie Jamison, The Gin Closet
The sky cries for those filled with sadness
~ Sonya Watson, The Tide Breaker
The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away
~ Homer, The Odyssey
She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.
~ A.B. Shepherd, The Beacon
every dream I have about kissing you ends with blood on my hands.
~ Trista Mateer, [Redacted]
Something was bleeding… and something was broken. It was my heart… because I had to leave you. (Chase to Rayne)
~ Kimberly Brockman, Raven
She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.
~ Laura Miller, My Butterfly
He'd never thought of death like that, like it's some sort of other life that you can hope for, dream of. Escape to. That it can rescue you.
~ M.C. Frank, No Plain Rebel
No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad.
~ Anthony Liccione
The death has an only color.
~ Sabrina Benulis
Love is fate that ends in tragedy.
~ Gabriella Jording
I wasn't dying alone. My beloved was dying with me.
~ Jannat Bhat, Love REVISITED
What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.
~ John Scalzi, Old Man's War
It's been a year and 3 months since we've kissed, and I rather have the ghost of his mouth on my lips than kiss anyone else.
~ Alishah Khan
...you disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
I can't imagine a universe in which I try to unlove her.
~ Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia