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Quotes About Sorrow

At the top of the hill stood a cross and a little below at the bottom was a stone tomb. In my dream, just as Christian came up to the cross his burden loosened from his shoulders and fell off his back. It tumbled and continued to do so down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb where it fell inside and was seen no more. Christian was so glad and overjoyed and in his excitement he said, "He has given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death.
~ John Bunyan
Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.
~ John Cheever
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.
~ John Cheever
She grieves because her grief is not an acute grief, and when I tell her that this sorrow over the inadequacies of her sorrow may be a new hue in the spectrum of human pain, she is not consoled.
~ John Cheever
Her eyes filled with tears when she thought of kissing Mamma and giving her the silver-framed photograph of Dana Andrews that she had bought at Woolworth's for her present.
~ John Cheever
It may well be that what gives to the wind along that Wessex coast its indescribable mixture of vague sorrow and wild obscure joy comes from its passing, on its unpredictable path, the floating hair of so many love-lorn maidens and the wild-tossed beards of so many desolate old men.
~ John Cowper Powys
It is so hard to fight with the tears that aren't coming from your eyes, but you are silently weeping inside your heart.
~ Unknown
Last night you came back to me and my world was right again. This morning I woke up against my wishes. Why must there be a dawn?
~ Unknown
Why must a heart break? Why must a tear drop
~ Unknown
Sometimes, crying is the only way your eyes speak when your mouth cant explain how broken your heart is.
~ Unknown
You will always own a piece of my heart. Unfortunately that's the piece thats broken.
~ Unknown
Broken heart is where the wise man turns away and where the faithful kneel and call on God.
~ Unknown
Tears are words too painful for a broken heart to speak.
~ Unknown
Since you went away, my heart breaks every day.
~ Unknown
My love lies bleeding.
~ Thomas Campbell
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
~ Edmund Spenser
I dont know why they call it heartbreak. It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.
~ Unknown
I'm sorry for loving you, I'm sorry that I cared, I'm sorry for holding onto you but our love was rare. I'm sorry for thinking you felt the same, I'm sorry for trying to make you stay but I really wanted you there. Most of all I'm sorry that I gave my hopes up, sorry that I thought you felt the same.
~ Unknown
I could wait for you forever, fight for you, or die for you. But what crosses my mind, which brings a tear, is that no matter how much I love you, I can't make you feel the same.
~ Unknown
Looking into the eyes of someone who will never love you back is a life of despair.
~ Unknown
When you lose someone that means a lot to you, you lose a part of you.
~ Unknown
I can't talk to you anymore, its not that I'm mad at you. Its just when I talk to you I realize how much I love you. Then I figure out that I can't have you.
~ Unknown
You know whats sad bout love? Its when you happen to know that there's just no hope for you being together yet you still pray to make it work. Its when your mind says 'let go' but your heart says 'hold on.' Its when you dream of that person almost every night only to wake up in the morning with tears in your eyes. And most of all, its when no matter how you try to forget that person, you just cant cause of the fact that you love that person so much and you just dont know why...
~ Unknown
Loving someone who doesnt love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.
~ Unknown