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Quotes About Sorrow

I let you find all those polytheistic truths yourself; life in them, find the joy in them, and even sorrow. But in these joys and sorrows rest content with the thought that they give meaning to our world.
~ Unknown
I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.
~ Unknown
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
~ Unknown
It is not easy to solve the problem of sorrow. Indeed there is no solution of it, unless the individual soul works out its own solution.
~ Hugh Black
I don't know how one can endure all the sorrows of life without repairing to gratitude. There is such inevitable grief that the practice of gratitude is all that can provide the necessary armor.
~ Hugh Hewitt
Nurturing gratitude is preparation for the worst of days, the building of a compass that will be necessary to get back to life after the deep sorrow abates.
~ Hugh Hewitt
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.
~ Iain M. Banks
We may need to learn how to lament and weep before the Lord and recognize our sins and those of our fellow Christians that have caused God to depart from our midst. In the midst of the pain of our lamentation, however, our confidence may yet be placed in God's faithfulness. As
~ Unknown
Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.
~ Ian Caldwell
Loss bites and pulls. It is a thing of hooks sunk into every part of you, parts that you would not think could feel loss like thumbs and lips, hooks moored to wind and memory so that slightest disturbance, the slightest act of recall, tugs at those fine lines. Red is the colour of loss and its smell is like burned roses.
~ Unknown
Down Where the Drunkards Roll." "How
~ Ian Rankin
When I wake, a piece of sharp green glass on the floor is cutting into my hand and I know it's a sign. I etch a letter on my hand; put it on top so I can see the jagged edges bleeding out; S. S is for sorrow, for all I don't say. S is for sick now, my punishing ways.
~ Ibi Kaslik
My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice.
~ Iceberg Slim
What is humanity? To feel pain at the sorrows of our neighbours, to feel humiliated at the humiliation of fellow-beings.
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Penitente: alguien a quien se ha incapacitado para disfrutar.
~ Idries Shah
The pain of grief is just as much a part of life as the joy of love; it is, perhaps, the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.
~ Unknown
Les cygnes chantent avant de mourir. Certaines personnes feraient bien de mourir avant de chanter.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Laugh, but weep at the same time. If you cannot weep with your eyes, weep with your mouth. If this is still impossible, urinate.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
Melancholia i smutek s? ju? pocz?tkiem zw?tpienia; zw?tpienie jest pocz?tkiem rozpaczy; rozpacz jest okrutnym pocz?tkiem szeregu stopni prowadz?cych ku z?u.
~ Comte de Lautreamont
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
~ Confucius
We see death in the loss of sweet daughters and wives and fathers and old friends
~ Conn Iggulden
When Pelitas had died, he had wept, but there were no more tears in him for the others. He had no more lies for them, no more speeches. The grand lie had been that there was anything to fight for at all.
~ Conn Iggulden
Jung has pointed out that bitterness and wisdom form a pair of opposites. "Where there is bitterness, wisdom is lacking, and where wisdom is, there can be no bitterness." Tears, sorrow, and disappointment are bitter, he says. But wisdom is the comforter in suffering.
~ Connie Zweig
I am pained that you should say so, my lady. I will be sorry to be parted from you.
~ Unknown