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Quotes About Sorrow

Nothing. My heart sank down into my stomach.
~ James Patterson
mother being taken from her deathbed, and
~ James Patterson
growled, "And, yes, my heart will break
~ James Patterson
I couldn't stop the overwhelming sadness I felt. It ate at me, like acid splashed all over my body.
~ James Patterson
How could I desire him like this when I was so full of sorrow? And would he desire me enough to help take me away from here, even for a few stolen moments?
~ James Patterson
He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
~ Graham Greene
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
~ Thomas Malthus
Everybody has unhappiness.
~ Mark Lanegan
As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.
~ Joseph Butler
If I ever write an autobiography, 'Hilariously Unhappy' could very well be the title.
~ David Hewlett
Mourning never ends for those who've faced unimaginable losses.
~ Alan Colmes
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
~ Park Geun-hye
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.
~ Rita Moreno
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
~ Elaine Stritch
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
~ Oscar Wilde
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
~ George Herbert
Woman, last at the cross, and earliest at the grave.
~ Eaton Stannard Barrett
Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul?
~ Brian Perkins
A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
~ John Dryden
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
~ Josh Billings
Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
~ Dion Boucicault