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Quotes About Sorrow

I love you," I cried, even as I choked on water. If there were to be last words he heard from me, I wanted it to be those. And then I felt us sliding, tumbling, the world turning upside down, and I lost sight of him, lost sight of everything,
~ Mary E. Pearson
His death only gave me an ending -- it didn't give back what had been taken
~ Mary E. Pearson
Seeing Malich dead was suddenly a very small victory. The satisfaction trickled away, like his blood across the floor. His death only gave me an ending-it didn´t give back what had been taken.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Loss flooded my throat. It had gripped me today with a fresh, cruel hand, reaching into my heart, tugging, reminding me of what I had lost... My mother's absence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The past is all forgiven long ago, dear Ringwood," said his sister earnestly; "it would be ill for brother and sister if the love between them could not outlive old injuries, and be the brighter and the truer for old sorrows.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Birds cough out their lungs, fly with regret to places where their feet no longer freeze in ice. Birds start falling. Bees lie dying.
~ Unknown
We weep for what we may never lose
~ Mary Higgins Clark
I love you," he gasped. "For always." "And I love you," she whispered as tears filled her eyes. He rolled on his side and drew her close, his arms sheltering against the storm that pounded on London. The sky itself wept because they loved each other, and it wasn't enough. As
~ Mary Jo Putney
Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.
~ Mary Jo Putney
I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little.
~ Mary Karr
it happened yesterday. I still couldn't believe I had actually took somebody's life, especially since death had caused me so much grief. I'd lost my first wife, Maggie, and our twenty-one-year-old-son, Claude, on the same day a little over a year ago.
~ Unknown
The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
~ Mary Oliver
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned to rejoicing; there is death, or triumph; there has been a meeting, and a change. No one will ever make a tragedy-and that is as well, for one could not bear it-whose grief is that the principals never met.
~ Mary Renault
It is a grief to see a hero go down to the house of Hades. It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.
~ Mary Renault
Then the pain of loss leaped out on me, like a knife in the night when one has been on one's guard all day.
~ Mary Renault
But sometimes his face would change, as if sorrow touched his shoulder, saying, "Had you forgotten me?
~ Mary Renault
For years the tears fell without touching the ground. On this night they hit the floor.
~ Mary Ruefle
Time is a great restorer, and changes surely the greatest sorrow into a pleasing memory.
~ Unknown
O Lord my God, I have trusted in thee;O Jesu my dearest one, now set me free.In prison's oppression, in sorrow's obsession,I weary for thee.With sighing and crying bowed down as dying,I adore thee, I implore thee, set me free!
~ Unknown
Our very sorrow and fear will be our joy and hope; our very stumblings our strength, and dimness our light, while stumbling or in darkness we feel after Him who is our Stay, our Light, our Joy. EDWARD B. PUSEY *******
~ Unknown
What still doth waste, and wasting as this light, Are my sad days unto eternal night.
~ Unknown
I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.
~ Marya Hornbacher
I was gone too long. He let me go. All that remains is this overwhelming, nearly tactile cloud of resentment. Too much was required of him, and he has nothing left.
~ Marya Hornbacher
The vibrations created by irritation are equivalent to those of mercury, by anger to those of lead, and by sadness and sorrow to those of aluminum. In the same way, uncertainty is related to cadmium, despair to steel, and stress to zinc.
~ Masaru Emoto