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Quotes About Sorrow

We all seem to be affected by desire, anger, fear, sorrow, worry, hunger, and labour; how do we have caste differences then?
~ Amartya Sen
I've learned how to make a meal out of pain, how to brand my sorrow.
~ Amber Tamblyn
Anger has that peculiar quality of isolation; like sorrow, it cuts one off, and for the time being, at least, all relationship comes to an end. Anger has the temporary strength and vitality of the isolated. There is a strange despair in anger; for isolation is despair.
~ Amber Tamblyn
I'd grow extra mouths to swallow all his confusion and sorrow.
~ Amber Tamblyn
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.
~ Amelia Barr
He's a bad man, sent with sorrow and shame wherever he goes, and I know it just as I know the long dead roll of the waves and the white creeping mist--like a dirty thief--which makes me cry out at sea 'All hands to reef! Quick! All hands to reef!'
~ AMELIA E. BARR
O love! love! love! Is there any sorrow in life like loving?
~ AMELIA E. BARR
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.
~ Amin Maalouf
We try to make theories of our perception. We try to explain what was or is making repeated indents upon our senses, life. We rationalize and give something a name, a number, try to recognize a persistent quality to some element of sorrow, distance, feeling.
~ Amiri Baraka
Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.
~ Amy Efaw
Death may feel like an amputation at the time of the loss, but if the connection is still vibrant, perhaps those aren't phantom pains haunting us but the spirit of love.
~ Amy Hollingsworth
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence.
~ Amy Hollingsworth
Green heard her voice, murmuring, and Adrian's, murmuring back. Something inside of him made an actual glass-cracking noise—and before he could convince himself that that it was his imagination, Blissa and three of the other nymphs danced through the hallway and into the living room. "We heard that." Blissa said, sweetly. "Heard what?" He asked, genuinely surprised. "Heard your heart breaking." Said Grace.
~ Amy Lane
It's like... I don't see in color anymore, you know? I look at something and I think I know what it looks like, and then I think about what the world would look like without Deacon, and it goes to black and white.
~ Amy Lane
broken. "Please, God. Let him live." He slumped to the ground then, elbows holding his weight as he buried his face in his arms and cried.
~ Amy Lane
I miss you," he gasped into Kelly's chest. "Oh God. I miss you so much." Kelly moaned—not a sexy moan, a sad one—and they were both crying, kissing, tasting salt and sex on each other's skin as the final, more painful crest hit them both.
~ Amy Lane
Because the songs that don't make the listener feel like barbed wire is ripping through their chest make them feel like someone's stitching up the wound with a rusty needle and a bottle of scotch for the pain. It's not always happy, but God, those songs make you feel.
~ Amy Lane
Someday, he thought as he went under, he really would sleep forever. Waking up was just too damned much trouble. Without Kelly, everything was. When Your Head is in the Stars, You're Everywhere "KELLY, HE'S crying.
~ Amy Lane
The song of their love was like Seth's music. It would forever make the angels cry.
~ Amy Lane
I missed you like I'd miss a lung, a kidney, and my right hand.
~ Amy Lane
È come se… non vedessi più le cose a colori, sai? Guardo qualcosa e penso di sapere com'è, e poi penso a come sembrerebbe il mondo senza Deacon, e tutto diventa bianco e nero.
~ Amy Lane
Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.
~ Amy Sedaris