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Quotes About Sorrow

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
~ Georg Trakl
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
~ Russell M. Nelson
It's always a pity to lose or draw at the end of the game; it's always painful.
~ Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Please your eye and plague your heart.
~ William Cobbett
My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.
~ Ross Lynch
We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
~ Franz Wright
There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.
~ Bill Bailey
There are moments when the grief comes bubbling up. The first time I saw Chris's chair empty, that was really hard. And it was hard when I started folding up some of his sweaters that I so imagine him wearing.
~ Dana Reeve
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
~ Francis Beaumont
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
~ Robert Byrne
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
~ William Gilmore Simms
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
~ Confucius
There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.
~ James Martineau
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
~ Ann Landers
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~ Washington Irving
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
~ Joseph Addison
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
~ Anne Grant
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
~ Jean Paul
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
~ James Russell Lowell
Elle pleurait des mots qui se mélangeaient les uns aux autres.
~ René Barjavel
why was I raised to follow the precepts of a religion that exalts sorrow and suffering? Yet my nose is as innocent as any snout. If I had been an animal I would have been very successful. But a man?
~ Rene Crevel