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Quotes About Sorrow

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
~ J. I. Packer
Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.
~ Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.
~ Dalida
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
~ Charlie Chaplin
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.
~ Robert Wagner
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
~ Steven Tyler
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
~ Roberta Flack
I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.
~ Jessica Lange
There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
~ Iain Banks
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
~ Benjamin Franklin
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
~ Georges Rouault
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that's what being really human means.
~ Gustave Flaubert
My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes... now it's snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.
~ Pink
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
~ Conor Oberst
This world has suns, but they are overcast;This world has sweets, but they're of ling'ring bloom;Life still expects, and empty falls at last;Warm Hope on tiptoe drops into the tomb.
~ John Clare
In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.
~ Danielle Cormack
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?
~ J. K. Rowling
Suddenly I'm having one of those moments that you have after losing someone—when you feel as if you've been kicked in the stomach and all your breath is gone, and you might never get it back.
~ Jennifer Niven
When this wave comes over me and I feel the hollow in my heart that's been there ever since my mum died. Loss does that to you, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it's as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might.
~ Jennifer Niven
I imagine his little bones in his little grave, and it is the saddest thought in the world.
~ Jennifer Niven
I feel the hollow in my heart that's been there ever since my mom died. Loss does that, hits you out of the blue. You can be in the car or in class or at the movies, laughing and having a good time, and suddenly it's as if someone has reached directly into the wound and squeezed with all their might.
~ Jennifer Niven