Quotes About Sorrow

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

So then I whispered, 'What is this thing, Lord?' and I began to cry; the tears went like rain goes down on the world without touching the face of Heaven. Suddenly I realized that it was the first time in my life my tears were strange to me because they just went straight forward out of my eyes;

Looking down the barrel of your eye, I see the body of a Bloody Cinderella looking back.

What do they find then, that this lover has committed the unpardonable error of not being able to exist—and they come down with a dummy in their arms. God's last round, shadow-boxing, that the heart may be murdered and swept into that still quiet place where it can sit and say: 'Once I was, now I can rest.

Sorrow fiddles the ribs and no man should put his hand on anything; there is no direct way. The foetus of symmetry nourishes itself on cross purposes; this is its wonderful unhappiness...

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

The truth is that the war helped. The war brought great sorrow and made life very very hard. Much sorrow, many tears. But it had been even harder before the war, because then everyone was alone in his sorrow.

Od kajanja nema gore nesre?e.

Verovao sam da je tuga za voljenim bi?em najteža patnja. Sada znam da je no?na hladno?a u rovu teža od svih duševnih patnji. Verovao sam da su muka mišljenja, tajna, duhovni problema najteži ?oveku. Sad znam da ?oveku ništa nije teže od nespavanja. Verovao sam da je istina najzna?ajnija za život, a sada sam siguran da je hleb najpre?e u životu.

Grieving is a necessary passage and a difficult transition to finally letting go of sorrow - it is not a permanent rest stop.

Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrows follow.

The Liturgy may be considered a school for acquiring four fruits: the presence of God, sorrow for sin, joy, and prayer.

daughter's death had loosed something in Sara, a savage kind of grief that burned onto the canvas.

cri de coeur

He wishes Marie were here, that's all. No one who hasn't missed a beloved spouse will ever know the literal meaning of the word "heartache

Oh, Jatel, I am so used. Would you rid yourself of me?" the knight started to cry. Jatel slowly kissed the woman upon her forehead. To the Gods! how he loved her so. Not for the world entire, sire.

without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past….

I drank whiskey because I was depressed, and whiskey made sure I stayed depressed.

[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it's emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.

Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!