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Quotes About Sorrow

I could sink like a stone into the earth and be swallowed whole by the weight of what happened here.
~ Jennifer Niven
When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?
~ Jenny Han
When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really and truly gone?
~ Jenny Han
Hans axlar skakade. Han grät. Det kändes som om hjärtat skulle brista i mig när jag hörde honom vädja så där, när jag såg honom så blottad och sårbar.
~ Jenny Han
When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life ... What does it mean when someone is really and truly gone?
~ Jenny Han
His heart is beating while mine is breaking.
~ Jenny Han
I'm so sorry. She had the most spirit of anyone I ever met. I'll miss her dearly.
~ Jenny Han
When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life.
~ Jenny Han
Tu sais ce que ça fait, d'aimer quelqu'un à un point presque insupportable, tout en sachant que la personne en question ne t'aimera pas
~ Jenny Han
Just hearing his name is like a dagger in my heart.
~ Jenny Han
I cried a lot. Just like that, it was over. It was over before I even had a chance.
~ Jenny Han
I'd hoped I wouldn't cry, because I knew Margot wouldn't, and it's lonely to cry alone, but I can't help it.
~ Jenny Han
But that's just inescapable, right? When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.
~ Jenny Han
There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.
~ Jenny Han
My whole body ached. I opened all the windows in my room and lay in the dark, just listening to the ocean. I wished the tide would carry me out and never bring me back.
~ Jenny Han
There is a tradition in Judaism that happiness and sorrow must be intermingled. On Passover, you are instructed to remove drops of wine before drinking it to lessen your pleasure. Each drop removed represents a tragedy that befell those who went before you. It's the same at weddings. The couple breaks a glass by stepping on it together. This is so they will remember past sorrows in the midst of their present joy.
~ Jenny Offill
The bodies of a man and his dog fused together, skin and fur melded. Nobody wanted to die alone.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Loneliness is a hell of a drug.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Shane closes his eyes and groans deep in his throat, a noise that embodies sex and death. His back arches, and his fingers rake the carpet as if to pull it up like grass.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
My fellow Americans, good evening. My name is Becca Goldman and I weep with all of you." I texted one word to Megan, 'Gag' She wrote back: 'My name is Becca Goldman, and I sleep with all of you
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Dead people don't bleed for long.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Grief doesn't come in a landslide. It seeps in,while you are sleeping. First you start in dreaming. Then your wake-up time carries over the sadness. And last your whole days are filled like a tumbler of water,filled with an aching that drips over the edge and doesn't have anywhere to go.
~ Jerrie Oughton