Quotes About Sorrow

Dark came to rest on my eyelids; strange and painful pennies.

And like Lot's wife, I am frozen. I have turned into a pillar of salt forever, and I shall forever go on looking, seeing my own land slip softly, slowly away from me.

There are natures doomed to be unfortunate, to find the bitter in the sweet.

They started bringing our babies out in those sheets and they laid them by my feet. They started making a line of them.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

She was thinking of him. Doubled up, small as a child, she gazed intently into the distance, at the man who was not there. She bowed to this image like a suppliant, and felt a divine reflection from it falling upon her--from the offended man, the wounded man, from the master, from him who was everywhere except where they were, who occupied the immense outside, and whose name made them bow their heads, the man to whom they were a prey.

Quando si viene a sapere, o la si vede di persona, della morte di uno di quelli che facevano la guerra accanto a te e che vivevano esattamente alla tua stessa maniera, prima ancora di capire provi un colpo al cuore. È come se d'un tratto venissi a sapere che tu stesso sei stato annientato. Il dolore arriva solo dopo un po'.

Tu pleures, tant ta peine est grande, Dans un désert, sans rien savoir… Et moi, debout auprès du soir, Je suis triste comme une offrande

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

The memory of you saddened my joys, but consoled my sorrows.

Happiness needs unhappiness. Joy goes hand in hand with sorrow. It is thanks to the shadow that we exist. We must not dream of an absurd abstraction. We must guard the bond that links us to blood and earth.

My soft voice and demeanor were useless. In a pint jar, I carried a cremated friend, like flesh scraped from a cistern.

Satan still influences people to disobey God. The results of Adam and Eve's sin are enumerated in Genesis 3. They were separated from God, the ground was cursed, and sorrow filled their hearts.

In Success few mornings frown; For the youth, to view the town, When morning came, with Sorrow went Through statued park and street; And they joined a gilded throng, As it coldly moved along Toward the temple built to Fortune, Low to worship at her feet.

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

Patience, earnestness, tenderness, sympathy--these are sometimes the gifts which are sent by the messenger Sorrow.

Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain, Fond heart that is ever more true Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain--- She'll wait by the sliprails for you.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.

I wish I wasn't alive as much as you are dead

The poets wrestle with the angel of sorrow till he leaves a blessing upon them.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.