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Quotes About Sorrow

There are a thousand beautiful things behind that look. A marvelous sort of ache that only a few people know about. Some miraculous sort of sorrow she's managed to walk away from.
~ Travis Thrasher
Distracted by emotion, she was drying her eyes with a slice of bread.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Does your heart keep swelling to make room for all the loves you have through life, until it swells so big it bursts, and you die?
~ Unknown
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
~ Tryon Edwards
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you God only can do that but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.
~ Tryon Edwards
and I never got to tell Sunny I love her.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It was Icicle. The memory faded, but the destroyed feeling hung heavily in Moon's chest. "She killed Crane," Sora sobbed into Umber's shoulder. "I saw her. I saw her. She's the one who killed our sister.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.
~ Patrick Jones
Love, sorrow, and wealth are the three things that cannot be concealed.
~ Patrick O'Brian
variety of other wise saws sprang to Stephen's indignant mind – words and feathers are carried off by the wind; as is the wedding, so is the cake; do not speak Arabic in the house of the Moor; pleasures pass but sorrows stay; love, grief and money cannot be concealed
~ Patrick O'Brian
A people that has had its ancient laws and customs taken from it, whose language and history count for nothing, and whose temples have been sacked and thrown down is apt to be morose
~ Patrick O'Brian
Ah, oui, pauvre papillon. C'est un de mes prisonniers
~ Paul Scott
Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.
~ Paul Simon
I was tumbling down the side of a dark star.
~ Paul Theroux
If you leave me, I'll want to die. Love, Elizabeth Carstensen.
~ Paul Zindel
I should like to punish myself for having been happy before I met you!
~ Pauline Réage
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
~ Pauline Réage
By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.
~ Paulo Coelho
We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.
~ Paulo Coelho
Nous ne choisissons pas nos vies, mais nous décidons quoi faire des joies et des tristesses que nous recevons.
~ Paulo Coelho
May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm losing the Love i have without having yet won the Love i hope to win.
~ Paulo Coelho
For years, I had fought against my heart, because I was afraid of sadness, suffering, and abandonment. But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love. I had thought that only others had the courage to love. But now I discovered that I too was capable of loving. Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.
~ Paulo Coelho
Tears are the blood of the soul
~ Paulo Coelho