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Quotes About Sorrow

We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot. Joy—happiness—sorrow—fear—every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as the deeps of being were stirred. She had tried to speak; at first voice would not come. Then—Yeth, said Rilla.
~ L.M. Montgomery
No había lágrimas, solo el mismo dolor horrible de pena y tristeza que siguió haciéndole daño hasta que se quedó dormida
~ L.M. Montgomery
The moment when a woman realises that she has nothing to live for--neither love, duty, purpose nor hope--holds for her the bitterness of death.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.
~ L.M. Montgomery
tasted the bitterness of death
~ L.M. Montgomery
Ma vie est un parfait cimetière d'espoirs ensevelis.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Their charmed circle would be broken; and, in spite of the jollity of their little festival, there was a hint of sorrow in every gay young heart.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Grief is ever proud.
~ L.M. Montgomery
of a cross-marked grave somewhere in France. But tonight it was only a shadow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ nothing more.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Excuse me, said Mr. Meredith, as it it did not matter much. He turned up the marriage service and got through with it, but the bride never felt quite properly married for the rest of her life.
~ L.M. Montgomery
at last tears were all wept out and the little patient ache that was to be in her heart until she died took their place.
~ L.M. Montgomery
She loved that quaint, little old room intensely; it was almost like a living thing to her - a sharer in gladness - a comforter in sorrow.
~ L.M. Montgomery
How can I be vain when I know I'm homely? protested Anne. I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The girl's beauty and sorrow and loneliness drew her with an irresistible fascination.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.
~ L.P. Hartley
Why is our life so cruel and dark That men no longer speak to friend? Why does evil so clearly mark The monstrous government of men? Compare what is with what is past And see how fraud and sorrow stand, While law and justice fade so fast That I know no longer where I am.
~ Lacey Baldwin Smith
När hösten kommer blir landskapet så stilla att det nästan dånar av stillhet. Och sådana höstdagar kan man höra en och annan ensam fågel skrika i stillheten som om den ropade av sorg över något förlorat.
~ Lars Gustafsson
during her childhood Tita didn't distinguish between tears of laughter and tears of sorrow. For her, laughing was a form of crying.
~ Laura Esquirel
Tita bajó la cabeza y con la misma fuerza con que sus lágrimas cayeron sobre la mesa, así cayó sobre ella su destino. Y desde ese momento supieron ella y la mesa que no podían modificar ni tantito la dirección de esas fuerzas desconocidas que la obligaban, a la una, a compartir con Tita su sino, recibiendo sus amargas lágrimas desde el momento en que nació, y a la otra a asumir esa absurda determinación
~ Laura Esquivel
Tú, todo tú, eres amor incandescente. Amor que no muere. Amor que permanece. Amor que no duele, aunque en este instante me encuentre llorando.
~ Laura Esquivel
She realized that you can't be weak when it comes to killing: you have to be strong or it just causes more sorrow.
~ Laura Esquivel
Reed imagined that having your child murdered was about the only thing worse than having to exhume your child's remains to bring the killer to justice.
~ Laura Griffin
He put his fist against his chest. "Burn, Maddygirl," he said. Then he turned and left her in the flickering gloom and thunder.
~ Laura Kinsale