Quotes About Sorrow

what is to life is to die

High over head they hoisted and fixed a gold signum; gave him to the flood, let the seas take him, with sour hearts and mourning mood. Men under heaven's shifting skies, though skilled in counsel, cannot say surely who unshipped that cargo.

In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows has a part.

What it must feel like to lie back with cut wrists in a warm bath, a voluptuous dwindling feeling.

Suffering pleases me for two reasons: because Jesus preferred suffering from his birth till his death on the cross. It must then be something very great since the All-Powerful One sought to suffer always. And suffering also pleases me because it is in the crucible of sorrow that souls are formed and because Jesus gives this gift to the souls He loves the most.

Joy and sorrow—and especially the areas of your life where there is weakness?

65) Dumbledore's Death When Dumbledore died in the Half Blood Prince, he was 150 years old.

To weep not for the way things had once been but for the way things had been supposed to go and did not. People believed that they were haunted by bad memories, but that wasn't the truth. The most sinister hauntings were from unrealized futures.

Engel nennens Freude, Teufel nennens Pein, Menschen meinen, Es muss Liebe sein.

Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is a hope.

Grief is half of justice," she said, and added, a moment later, "the other half is hope.

and a line from Emily Dickinson that had been running through my head for months: "Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

I wonder why things always seem most real to us when we lose them, he said softly.

To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was to be revealed as its accomplice.

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend it hasn't. Losing friends or parents is not the same. To lose a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows all hope.

People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Losing a child is beyond comprehension. It defies biology. It contradicts the natural order of history and genealogy. It derails common sense. It violates time. It creates a huge, black, bottomless hole that swallows hope.

For as long as I can remember, I have felt a vast weight resting on me, a sadness that has always been part of me yet doesn't belong to me.

Saracen The Knight: There will be a cost. Saint-Germain: Anything. I will pay anything to get my wife back. Saracen: Even your immortality? Saint-Germain: Even that. What's the point in living forever, when it is not with the woman I love?

The only shot he ever fired in anger… was at himself.

Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.

Le seul souvenir qui me reste depuis des siècles que je vis dans la pierre, est le doux contact des larmes sur un visage d'homme

Le seule souvenir qui me reste depuis des siècles que je vis dans la pierre, est le doux contact des larmes sur un visage d'homme.

Like literature, music can overwhelm you with sudden emotion, can move you to absolute sorrow or ecstasy; like literature, painting has the power to astonish, and to make you see the world through fresh eyes. But only literature can put you in touch with another human spirit, as a whole, with all its weaknesses and grandeurs, its limitations, its pettinesses, its obsessions, its beliefs; with whatever it finds moving, interesting, exciting, or repugnant.

the path that those girls made us take was entirely fallacious, I should add that it was raining', as Nerval probably wrote somewhere; I hadn't often thought about Nerval lately, but he had hanged himself at the age of forty-six, and Baudelaire too had died at that age; it isn't an easy one.