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Quotes About Sorrow

But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.
~ Philip Gibbs
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.
~ Lao Tzu
When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.
~ Laozi
God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!
~ Margaret Junkin Preston
I walk where once the grass was green And mourn the lark that sings no more What bird could sing whose eyes have seen Broken blossoms on the field of war?
~ Tom Springfield
You shall not hear their mirth:You shall not come to think them well contentBy any jest of mine. These men are worthYour tears:You are not worth their merriment.
~ Wilfred Owen, Poems
Nobody returned alive from the war.
~ Andrija Joni?
..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly.
~ Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain
Cry your grief to God. Howl to the heavens. Tear your shirt. Your hair. Your flesh. Gouge your eyes. Carve out your heart. And what will you get from Him? Only Silence. Indifference.
~ Jennifer Donnelly, Revolution
Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.
~ Shaun Hick
We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.
~ Chris Womersley, Bereft
For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.
~ David Jones, In Parenthesis
One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told. ~ Simon
~ Cassandra Clare
I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
~ Khalil Gibran
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~ Lord Byron
Every drop of sweat and every breath we take in life, if not taken for the sake of Allah, will lead to regret and sorrow on the Day of Judgment
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
~ Pearl S. Buck
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
~ Jack Kerouac
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
~ Jack Kerouac
My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
~ Rumi
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.
~ Mother Teresa
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
~ Bible
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
~ Juliet Marillier