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Quotes About Sorrow

The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
~ Lemony Snicket
They spent the rest of the afternoon trudging back up the hill carrying their groceries, but the heaviness of cucumbers and limes was nothing compared to the heaviness in the orphans' hearts.
~ Lemony Snicket
Mr. Poe couldn't think of anything else to say that might have comforted the Baudelaire orphans, but I wish now that I had the power to go back in time and speak to these three sobbing children.
~ Lemony Snicket
If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
~ Lemony Snicket
Es inútil que os describa lo mal que se sintieron Violet, Klaus y Sunny el tiempo que siguió. Si habéis perdido a alguien muy importante para vosotros, ya sabéis lo que se siente; y, si nunca habéis perdido nadie, no os lo podéis imaginar.
~ Lemony Snicket
Baudelaire children had a slightly different
~ Lemony Snicket
My love: Our love breaks my heart. And stopped yours.
~ Lemony Snicket
el mar, del que alguien ha dicho que no es otra cosa que una biblioteca de todas las lágrimas de la historia.
~ Lemony Snicket
o mar] há quem diga, não passa de uma biblioteca de todas as lágrimas da história.
~ Lemony Snicket
Life is worth nothing, life is worth nothing, It always starts with crying and with crying ends. And that's why, in this world, life is worth nothing.
~ Len Deighton
You made me cry When you said goodbye Isn't that a shame My tears fell like rain Isn't that a shame You're the one to blame
~ lennon john iv
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
~ Leo Buscaglia
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~ Leo Buscaglia
The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
~ Leo F. Buscaglia
Life is the joyless quest for joy.
~ Leo Strauss
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifling.
~ Leo Tolstoy
God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
~ Leo Tolstoy
I have wrote my name in hell," Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.
~ James Purdy
The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.
~ James Sallis
In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.
~ James Sallis
She could not eat, like a dog that has been sold.
~ James Salter