Quotes About Sorrow
It was Una," he said hoarsely. "He couldn't get over Una. He told me how a man, a real man, had no right to let sorrow destroy him. He told me again and again how I must believe that time would take care of it. He said it so often that I knew he was losing.
~ John Steinbeck
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And just as war is always for somebody else, so it is also true that someone else always gets killed. And Mother of God! that wasn't true either. The dreadful telegrams began to sneak sorrowfully in, and it was everybody's brother. Here we were, over six thousand miles from the anger and the noise, and that didn't save us.
~ John Steinbeck
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Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
~ John Steinbeck
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Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success.
~ John Steinbeck
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Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.
~ John Steinbeck
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Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too. He found that he had started to hum a droning little tune. He turned, walked through the kitchen, and stood in the doorway, looking at Cathy. She smiled weakly at him, and he thought, What a child! What a helpless child! and a surge of love filled him.
~ John Steinbeck
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Then Samuel died and the world shattered like a dish.
~ John Steinbeck
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Do you know, I loved you better than anything in the world? I did. It was so strong that it took quite a killing.
~ John Steinbeck
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sorrow is the mother of a general compassion
~ John Steinbeck
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You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.
~ John Steinbeck
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Ma put down her head and she fought with a desire to cry.
~ John Steinbeck
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Why, you mouse—you nasty cur. With goodness all around you—don't you dare suggest a thing like that! Why is your sorrow more refined than my sorrow?
~ John Steinbeck
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The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal. There was sorrow in Kino's rage, but this last thing had tightened him beyond breaking.
~ John Steinbeck
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Ever see a cock pheasant, stiff and beautiful, ever' feather drawed an' painted an' even his eyes drawed in pretty? An' bang! You pick him up - bloody an' twisted, an' you spoiled somepin better'n you; an' eatin' him don't ever make it up to you, 'cause you spoiled somepin in yaself, an' you can't never fix it up.
~ John Steinbeck
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There is a here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all your success.
~ John Steinbeck
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A frightened sorrow has closed down over my heart.
~ John Steinbeck
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think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody. And my life has not been a full orchestra for a long time now. A single note only—and that note unchanging sorrow.
~ John Steinbeck
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Sevgi yok senin içinde. Vard?, beni öldürmeye yetecek kadar.
~ John Steinbeck
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He remembered hearing a doctor say, I love to deliver a baby, because if I do my work well, there's joy at the end of it. The sheriff had thought often of that remark. It seemed to him that if he did his work well there was sorrow at the end of it for somebody. The fact that it was necessary was losing its weight with him. He would be retiring soon whether he wanted to or not.
~ John Steinbeck
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A frightened sorrow has closed down over my heart. I wish I were a child so I could cry. I'm too old to be afraid like this. And I've not felt such despair since a bird died in my hand by a flowing water long ago
~ John Steinbeck
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There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate—died of malnutrition—because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.
~ John Steinbeck
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Kjærleiken er den ande som gjer at vi finst til Kjærleiken er den vande som vil og ikkje vil Kjærleiken er ei lykke og han er sorga di, han går der bak eit stykke og så går han forbi Kjærleiken er som lyset, det kjem og det forsvinn Kjærleiken er det gyset som seier tap og vinn
~ Unknown
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Every time I go look for God amidst sorrow, I always find Jesus at the cross, in death and resurrection. This is our God.
~ Nadia Bolz-Weber
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Also, I would cry at the words 'I miss you' after I left my family
~ Jessica Jung
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