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Quotes About Sorrow

She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.
~ Tanith Lee
Essentially, blood left the body in a number of ways. It
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he'd spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.
~ Tara Janzen
sorrow must not be cultivated: it is a poor lifestyle choice.
~ Tarun J. Tejpal
Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know.
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it is gone, nothing is whole again.
~ Tayari Jones
Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
~ Tayari Jones
emptied. Love makes a place in your life, it makes a place for itself in your bed. Invisibly, it makes a place in your body, rerouting all your blood vessels, throbbing right alongside your heart. When it's gone, nothing is whole again.
~ Tayari Jones
Everything which happened before my meeting her was a premonition; everything I did after I killed her was an apology; not for killing her, but for the lie that was my life.
~ Tayeb Salih
dustiness, yet in that dustiness I always feel the movement of pain. I am afraid to penetrate deeper.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Los hijos de las tinieblas no se sentían acosados por su conciencia y por lo tanto, podían gozar alegremente de la vida. Los hijos de la luz en cambio, tenían la expresión seria y vivían apenados porque en el mundo reinaba el mal.
~ Taylor Caldwell
blessings, but curses. And this afflicted me. When I was drained of tears, but not of sorrow, I discovered I could speak no more. But when I find him whom I seek, not only will the curse against my people be lifted, I shall speak once more in rejoicing.
~ Taylor Caldwell
In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights.
~ Ted Chiang
It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
~ Ted Dekker
Pity speaks to grief More sweetly than a band of instruments.
~ Bryan Procter
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
When I spend time at North Shore Animal League America, I always feel so sad for the cats, especially the kittens. Once they're at North Shore, they're safe and I know they're going to find homes, but it's that time in between that they're in cages and waiting to find homes that breaks my heart and I feel like their spirits are gone.
~ Beth Ostrosky Stern
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron
Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
~ Mark Twain
Sorrow for not understanding like I understand now the unpredictable, profound journey that marriage is.
~ Ruby Dee
When I hear that a personal friend has fallen into matrimonial courses, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism — a holy sorrow, unmixed with anger.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
~ John Owen
Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
~ Raymond Chandler
If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
~ Confucius