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Quotes About Sorrow

I wish it had been a dream now and that I had never hooked the fish and was alone in bed on the newspapers.
~ Ernest Hemingway
This was Brett, that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and stepping into the car, as I had last seen her, and of course in a little while I felt like hell again. It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is no such word as love. Just as there is no word for sorry.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I went into the room and stayed with Catherine until she died. She was unconscious all the time, and it did not take her very long to die.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Grief doesn't split.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers. Now it was over he was lonely, detached and unelated and he hated every one he saw.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I can write a short story in six words. For sale: baby shoes, never used
~ Ernest Hemingway
Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. How many people will he feed, he thought. But are they worthy to eat him? No, of course not. There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behaviour and his great dignity.
~ Ernest Hemingway
What happens to people that love each other?' 'I suppose they have whatever they have, and they are more fortunate than others. Then one of them gets the emptiness forever.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The anger and the emptiness and the hate that had come with the let-down after the bridge, when he had looked up from where he had lain and crouching, seen Anselmo dead, were still all through him. In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers. Now it was over he was lonely, detached and unrelated and he hated every one he saw.
~ Ernest Hemingway
And I know old songs such as the loss of John Jacob Astor on the Titanic when sunk by an iceberg and I would be glad to sing them rather than that no peas no rice song if you so wish.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Take it back. Sure. Anything. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that? No. Not that. About me going to hell. Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Å koda, že to vÅ¡echno nebyl opravdu jenom sen a tu rybu jsem ulovil. Je mi to líto, rybo. Takhle to skon?it nemÄ›lo.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Le garçon vit que le vieil homme respirait, puis il vit les mains du vieil homme et il se mit à pleurer. Il sortit très doucement pour aller chercher du café et pleura tout le long du chemin.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I wanted it so much,' she said. 'I don't know why I wanted it so much. I wanted that poor kitty. It isn't any fun to be a poor kitty out in the rain.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In him, too, was despair from the sorrow that soldiers turn to hatred in order that they may continue to be soldiers
~ Ernest Hemingway
Is the sorrow of death the same as the sorrow of knowing the pain in a child's future? What about the melancholy of music? Is it the same as the melancholy of a summer dusk? Is the loss I was feeling for my father the same I would have felt for a man better-fit to the world, a man who might have thrown a baseball with me or taken me out in the mornings to fish? Both we call grief. I don't think we have words for our feelings any more than we have words for our thoughts.
~ Ethan Canin
The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him. So I have a secret hope of someone, a God, who is wise and plans; but my hopes grow dim when I see the deeds of men and their destinies. For Fortune is ever veering, and the currents of life are shifting, shifting, wandering for ever.
~ Eurípedes
Sorrow is the price of love in a world where nothing lasts. Isn't it?" He smiled back at her fondly. "Yes. Yes, I suppose it is." "Without love and sorrow we're just objects in space," said Molly. Winter was surprised by a surge of emotion. He pressed his lips together.
~ Andrew Klavan
The dead boy floats by.
~ Andrew Pyper
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time. Let us treasure our joys but not bewail our sorrows. The glory of light cannot exist without its shadows. Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together. The journey has been enjoyable and well worth making. Once.
~ Andrew Roberts
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time. Let us treasure our joys but not bewail our sorrows. The glory of light cannot exist without its shadows. Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together. The journey has been enjoyable and well worth making. Once.'15
~ Andrew Roberts
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
~ Andrew Vachs
If love could die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard
~ Andrew Vachss