Quotes About Sorrow

It almost contradicts itself, " she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.

And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.

We have so much to learn from a fallen teardrop which is wiped away from our cheek…never to be felt again

There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that's watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.

My own love was never mine and now I don't even have a dream of loving again.

No parent should have to bury their child.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

Smile is the arch of an arrowed heartTears are waters to make pain's life start

But even as she was going through with it she knew it was useless, just as it was useless to save a single earring when the other half of the pair was lost

Dreaming of getting you I loosed everything Cheerfulness of smile And all the dreams of life

my dear, I have nothing to say.my heart burns like the evening sky.

You must really love this guy, huh? I mean, to be crying as ugly as you are?

All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man's boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow.

No man can have true sympathy who has not been, in some measure at least, "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," but the sorrow and grief must have passed, must have ripened into a fixed kindness and habitual calm.

Know, then, that when the dark night of sorrow, pain, or misfortune settles down upon your soul, and you stumble along with weary and uncertain steps, that you are merely intercepting your own personal desires between yourself and the boundless light of joy and bliss, and the dark shadow that covers you is cast by none and nothing but yourself.

And then his throat closed. For it was there. He had wanted it to be there, but now that he saw it, he was overcome with sadness.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will always be in her heart

The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part, had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor for ever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it. Towards her mother, too, Pearl's errand as a messenger of anguish was all fulfilled.

Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself— sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened— down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner?

Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.

It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.