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Quotes About Sorrow

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt one, those who keep silence hurt more. They help to increase the sense of general isolation which makes a sort of fringe to the sorrow itself.
~ lewis c s vii
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
~ lewis c s vii
Always winter but never Christmas.
~ lewis c s viii
"I weep for you," the Walrus said:"I deeply sympathize."With sobs and tears he sorted outThose of the largest size,Holding his pocket-handkerchiefBefore his streaming eyes.
~ Lewis Carroll
There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
~ Lewis Nordan
As everything ages and passes away, may each of us be kind to ourselves; As everything ages and passes away, may each of us accept joy and sorrow; As everything ages and passes away, may each of us be happy and at peace.
~ Lewis Richmond
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
~ Meister Eckhart
I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.
~ Tony Blair
She whispered, "What of love?" "Bah. Love is for poets and princes. For the likes of us, we must hope for a tomorrow without pain." Dorit must have seen the sorrow shadow Leah's eyes, for her voice gentled. "My little one, listen carefully to what I say. You must set such futile dreams of love and happiness aside. And you must plan.
~ Janette Oke
A heart that knows sorrow loses the ability to compare. I will just tell you that I have walked a road marked and rutted as your own. I too had every reason to grow bitter. I could have turned my back on the Lord above. But I chose to trust Him. I cannot say that I understand His ways, but this trust has served me well. It has comforted me through hard times, and blessed me with joy when there was goodness about – and with peace when there wasn't.
~ Janette Oke
Memories were not always pleasant, she decided. Memories could bring pain, too. She
~ Janette Oke
the only sign of where Stephen had been murdered was a dark stain among the rocks. He could see the followers carefully, sorrowfully, moving his body toward an open burial cave. Linux remained apart from those grieving by the cave's opening. His eyes were dry, yet his heart felt wrenched by tears only he could sense. Or perhaps not, for a pair of men approached, one of them the rugged apostle called Peter. "A tragic day, and a glorious day," the man said softly.
~ Janette Oke
Tears come to your eyes, and you feel such a rush of tenderness and pity that you stop beside a lamppost and hang on for support.
~ Jay McInerney
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love
~ Jean Cocteau
This was more than death, it was the heart's death.
~ Jean Cocteau
Quién dijo aquello de: Un rey sin diversión es un hombre lleno de miserias?
~ Jean Giono
No, Nezzie. No medicine can make him well,' she replied in a firm voice that was tinged with sorrow.
~ Jean M. Auel
In Spain to share a pleasure is a good thing because in sharing what is good one gives something worth having. To share one's sorrow is to beg that one's burden shall be partly carried by another. Spaniards are too proud to ask favors." The
~ Jean Plaidy
Time is our friend in trouble," she said, "because it tells us that the sorrow cannot last for ever.
~ Jean Plaidy
Mourons : de tant d'horreurs qu'un trépas me délivre. Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre ? La mort aux malheureux ne cause point d'effroi : Je ne crains que le nom que je laisse après moi
~ Jean Racine
Elle meurt dans mes bras d'un mal qu'elle me cache.
~ Jean Racine
Est-ce ainsi que vos yeux consolent ma disgrâce?
~ Jean Racine
Shall I tell her that in spite of everything they did I died then? Shall I tell her what it feels like to be dead? It's not being sad, it's quite different. It's being nothing, feeling nothing. (...) it's like walking along a road in a fog, knowing that you have left everything behind you. But you don't want to go back; you've got to go on.
~ Jean Rhys
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo