Quotes About Sorrow
Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.
~ Terri Guillemets
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A light is from our household gone, A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant at our hearth Which never can be filled; A gentle heart, that throbbed but now With tenderness and love, Has hushed its weary throbbings here, To throb in bliss above...
~ Anonymous, "My Child," 1800s
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Let your sorrow smile once in a while.
~ Terri Guillemets
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Blues ain't nothin' but a po' man's heart disease.
~ African-American saying
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Happiness is lost by criticising it; sorrow by accepting it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Hanging my head and my heart with it, that you sorrowed alone...
~ Emily Dickinson
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Sorrow almost resents love, it is so inflamed.
~ Emily Dickinson, 1878
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Fire is love and water sorrow.
~ Proverb
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Have you blossoms and books, those solaces of sorrow?
~ Emily Dickinson, 1885
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It was only a few months after their father's death. His loss had left a wound in Darlene's chest that felt physical, a perpetual ache.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
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Grief bores holes in our hearts & heads like a woodpecker — peck peck peck — knock knock knock You can't make it stop Eventually it flies away — but leaves pits that never fully heal
~ Terri Guillemets
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But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer And night doth nightly make grief's strength seem stronger.
~ William Shakespeare
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Grief is a haunted lake that's all too easy to drown in.
~ Terri Guillemets
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A friend dies or leaves us: we feel as if a limb was cut off.
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
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Sorrow makes us all children again, — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Grief cries pain and sighs love.
~ Terri Guillemets
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There was nothing to do for that kind of loss — no solution to it, no medicine for it. You just coped as best you could. The ache was dull but profound, like the unanswered call of a lonely coyote.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
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Love stabs at loss with pangs of past happiness.
~ Terri Guillemets
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Oh, most degrading of all ills that wait On man, a mourner in his best estate! All other sorrows virtue may endure, And find submission more than half a cure; Grief is itself a medicine, and bestow'd T' improve the fortitude that bears the load, To teach the wanderer, as his woes increase, The path of wisdom, all whose paths are peace...
~ William Cowper
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Grief is a species of idleness.
~ Samuel Johnson
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
~ Chinese proverb
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My heart has cried a deep red grief since you've been gone, pulsing crimson pain.
~ Terri Guillemets
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The love that makes you feel light as a feather is the love that makes your heart feel heaviest when it goes.
~ Terri Guillemets
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You flew off with the wings of my heart and left me flightless.
~ Terri Guillemets
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