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Quotes About Sorrow

S for silent, for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.
~ Lawrence Durrell
If there's one thing I really love... it's sad music.
~ Danny Elfman
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
~ Sara Teasdale
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
~ Carl Jung
Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.
~ James Taylor
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
~ Khalil Gibran
Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
~ Jodi Picoult
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
~ Charles Bukowski
A sad man, is man with the lights turned off.
~ Arsenie Boca
Even big-bird gets sad sometimes
~ Andrew VanWyngarden
I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.
~ Hilda Doolittle
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
~ Daniel Handler
Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.
~ Faraaz Kazi
The still, sad music of humanity.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?
~ Faraaz Kazi
Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?
~ O.R. Melling
Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infamous
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
~ Matthew Arnold
Ay me! sad hours seem long.
~ William Shakespeare
They who are sad find somehow sweetness in tears.
~ Euripides