Quotes About Sorrow

Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.

Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

Il y a donc des amours pareils à ces fruits de la Mer Morte qui ne vous laissent à la bouche qu'un goût de cendre impérissable.

Then he returned to his theme: 'If so many lovers feel the desire to die and more and more die each day, while still in love, it is because love and death are linked by analogies, by underground passages, and communicate. One leads to the other. The one makes the other more acute, more intense. There is no doubt that death is a great stimulant of love. ("Love And Death")

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

I looked like a person who wanted to abandon his own abandonment around some corner. Like someone looking for a distant and unknown place to release the cats of his sorrow, so that they would never find the way home. Do you know how hard it is to get rid of cats?

In stories, especially those told by loved ones, there was always some blind spot, a momentary gap, a weak point, incomprehensible sorrow, longing for something lost or that had never taken place, which pulled me inside, into the dark galleries of the unspoken. There were such secret galleries and corridors in every story.

Happy countries are all alike; each unhappy country is unhappy in its own way, as has been written.

merriment, the ache in her side that

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

the surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve." Bethia as an old woman about to die p 257

That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true 'tis pity; And pity 'tis 'tis true.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Goodnight! Goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow That I shall say goodnight 'til it be morrow.

All to myself I think of you, Think of the things we used to do, Think of the things we used to say, Think of each happy bygone day, Sometimes I sigh, and sometimes I smile, But I keep each olden, golden while All to myself.

Misery loves company.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.