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Quotes About Sorrow

Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.
~ Emo Philips
Darling, even raindrops try to wipe my teardrops but your thoughts haul out more tears from my liquid eyes and then teardrops replace raindrops...
~ Abhishek Rath
Aiden was gone. Like Caleb, but in a different way. I'd lost both of them.
~ Jennifer L. Armentrout, Pure
The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart.
~ Tana French, The Secret Place
Death is the saddest part of life.
~ deAnna Lea
When you lose someone, it stays with you. Always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
~ L.J. Smith
My soul is crushed under the weight of tears I can't spill.
~ J.A. ANUM
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
~ John Milton
Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave.
~ S. L. Viehl
I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.
~ Siobhan Davis, True Calling
Pain is joy when it cries, it's my smile in disguise.
~ Pusha T
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
~ Wilfred Owen
Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won't make it home, I'm already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart.
~ Lauren Oliver
My grief and my smile begin in your face, my son.
~ Gabriela Mistral
Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.
~ Patience Strong
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
~ Edwin Arnold
Sometimes you gotta laugh through the tears, smile through the pain so that you can live through the sorrow.
~ Alex Tan
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
~ Charles Spurgeon
No wonder sorrow doesn't smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
~ Nick Cave
Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?
~ Madonna Ciccone
Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.
~ William Shakespeare