Quotes About Sorrow

Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After

I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by.

Death was kind." He drew a sharp breath. "But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

Mais, dans la mort d'un homme, un monde inconnu meurt, et je me demandais quelles étaient les images qui sombraient en lui.

Wenn jemand starb, dem du dein Herz geschenkt hattest, nahm er es dann mit?

It is better to be sorrowful than sad.

The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

Death, child. It's beckoning us both, my brother and I.

There are thousands of words in the English language for acts of senseless violence, but not one seems to be a contestant when a child dies.

The only people in the whole world that Salim loved had been killed by the virus that traveled to America in his own blood.

I miss you with the very edge of my skin.It winces in absence, a giant muscle contracting.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

I felt like the sky around me was closing me in. Trapping me in some sort of bubble where time stands still and grief would linger on forever.

It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.

Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human.

Even though death is the worst thing to go through, Heaven is still the best place to go to.

When he whispered my name, that's when I knew- this was how death felt.