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Quotes About Sorrow

Will I feel his ashes as they fall against mine?
~ Madeline Miller
FOR THE FIRST TIME since my death, he falls into a fitful, trembling sleep. Achilles. I cannot bear to see you grieving. His limbs twitch and shudder. Give us both peace. Burn me and bury me. I will wait for you among the shades. I will— But already he is waking. "Patroclus! Wait! I am here!" He shakes the body beside him. When I do not answer, he weeps again.
~ Madeline Miller
And perhaps, it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone Do you think? Perhaps, Achilles admitted
~ Madeline Miller
The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death. Yes, I whispered. Yes.
~ Madeline Miller
The voices of the dead were said to have the power to make the living mad.
~ Madeline Miller
He holds me so tightly I can feel the faint beat of his chest, like the wings of a moth. An echo, the last bit of spirit still tethered to my body. A torment.
~ Madeline Miller
I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he was a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I pressed his face into my mind, as seals are pressed in wax, so I could carry it with me.
~ Madeline Miller
The numbness now is merciful. A last few moments of it. Then, the fall.
~ Madeline Miller
He was watching me, his eyes as deep as earth. "Will you come with me?" he asked. The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death. "Yes," I whispered. "Yes.
~ Madeline Miller
If it were a man, I wondered if I would pity him. But it was not a man. When I passed back by the pen, his friends would stare at me with pleading faces. They moaned and squealed, and pressed their snouts to the earth. We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak, but you were wrong
~ Madeline Miller
Heya mola, heya mola diye ÅŸark? söylüyorlard? bara yaslanm??, bulant?yla baÅŸ edebilmek için ÅŸarap içerken.
~ John Dos Passos
You must guard your heart with everything you've got, especially in times of disappointment and pain. Your secret weapon against the enemy's hatred is to love God right then and there, in the midst of the sorrow, whatever it may be.
~ John Eldredge
Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.
~ John Eldredge
His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.
~ John Fowles
era un viso indimenticabile, un viso tragico. Sgorgava dolore con la stessa purezza, naturalezza e inarrestabilità con cui sgorga l'acqua da una sorgente nei boschi. Non c'era artificio in esso, né ipocrisia, né isterismo, né maschera; soprattutto non c'era la minima traccia di pazzia. La pazzia era nel mare vuoto, nel vuoto orizzonte, [...]; come se la sorgente fosse stata naturale in sé ma innaturale in quanto sgorgava da un deserto.
~ John Fowles
I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
~ John Grisham
had been "the worst thing" about this cold-blooded deed.
~ John Guy
until the queen, in tears, slipped off her stool, at which point she knelt and continued as before.
~ John Guy
His two infant sons had died the previous year
~ John Guy
Sorrow floats.
~ John Irving
O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
~ John Irving
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don''t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time.
~ John Irving
Juan Diego lived there, in the past—reliving, in his imagination, the losses that had marked him.
~ John Irving
Love also floats. And, that being true, love probably resembles Sorrow in other ways.
~ John Irving