Quotes About Sorrow

I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of all things and for the way the world could be but is not.

In this momentous night, however, he knew far more sadness than grief, and while deep sadness bruises the heart, it doesn't leave the enduring scars of profound grief.

Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

Sorrow might have grown into depression if he had been a less positive person, but his lifelong experience was that every spell of darkness lifted soon enough, so that light came again into the soul and mind and heart, which were not made for darkness.

Her grief was now doubled by his grief. She wondered how many heartbreaks a child so young could endure.

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

Envy, Bob. Envy eats them alive. If you had money, they'd envy you that. But since you don't, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of its name.

Loss is the hardest thing," I said. "But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. —Edgar Allan Poe, "Lenore

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

Unrequited love.

there is only misery in hoping for the wrong thing.

Until they move on from this world, even the dead can know fear. You would think they have nothing to lose, but sometimes they are wretched with anxiety, not about what might lie Beyond, but about those whom they have left behind.

Grief becomes sorrow, and sorrow becomes—" "Enduring

He had been greeted by a black screen with one word in white block letters: Tragedy.

From time to time he heard himself whimpering in grief. Love was the best thing when you had it, and the most terrible thing when it was taken from you.

The day in Pico Mundo when I lost Stormy will forever be the worst day of my life, although since then each place I go seems in one way or another to be darker than the place before it.

There's nowhere on Earth where people haven't died in sorry ways.

face that looked partly melted.

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.

Their baby girl had been born premature while Ian was at sea, and it became immediately apparent that she had a defective heart. By the time Ian returned home, Allison Marie had already been laid to rest.