Quotes About Sorrow

I really miss her. I know you do. I hate this kitchen. Right there with you, kid. The good sister, she was.

The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

A dark and lonely plain lay before him, cut by a single strip of water that flowed slow-moving into the east: a ribbon of beaten silver bright beneath the glare of a full moon.… Floating on the nameless river, a ship, tall and proud, with pure white sails raised and ready.… Ranks of warriors holding lances, and two hooded figures walking among them, as if in a stately procession. The smell of willows and cottonwoods, and a sense of passing sorrow.…

A beam of moonlight shone through a barred window set high in the wall and fell on her face. A single tear rolled down her cheek, like a liquid diamond.

Los cantos de los muertos son los lamentos de los vivos.

It was the worst of things: loss utter and complete, without a chance of restoration.

John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!' Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.

I do not want to die - Then you should not have been born (Sita) Last Vampire

If you don't want to die, you should have never been born

The dead might bleed, but they never cry.

He cries, "Please! I don't want to die." I lean over. My hair smothers him. "Then you should never have been born," I say.

There are days that should never be. And then, there are days that, oh, if only they could go on forever!

I was not sorry when my brother died

there will be people who will not be consoled for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy.

You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.

Az életöröm abból az érzésbÅ'l fakad, hogy a vigalom meg a búbánat is csak rövid ideig tart, és jaj nekünk, ha megtudjuk, hogy örök boldogság vár reánk.

Oh, sorrow beyond telling! Oh, sheep that none can save! Oh, heartbreak of the future! O shepherd, speak from the grave! Lanny thought that these verses said something to the American people.

Lanny danced with light feet but a heavy heart; having created patterns in times of joy, he could reproduce them in times of sorrow.

Where savage beasts in forest midnight roam, Seeking in sorrow for each other's joy. Even while he was helping to win a war, Lanny hated that war and all others; he hated the lies he had to tell fully as much as those he had to hear. He was a man with a divided mind, and this put him at a disadvantage with men like these Nazis, who were never troubled with doubts and had consigned all scruples to the dustbin of history.

For Lanny's then stepfather had been not merely a painter, but a student and thinker. When he painted the ancient ruins of Greece and Rome he tried to make you feel the sorrow of great things vanished forever. When he painted a Greek shepherd in his rags or a Biskra water carrier in his gray burnoose, Marcel was not just getting something exotic and unusual; he had a heart full of pity for lonely men who lived hard lives and did not understand the forces which dominated them.

for did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine?

We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.

We realized that life, even the worst life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrows, successes and failures, and there was no need to fear the failures more than the successes.