Sorrow Quotes

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

~ Jocelyn Murray

I think unconsciously I was afraid that if she asked me how I felt, my unleashed grief and rage would kill us all. In some unadmitted corner of myself I was already weeping and screaming and begging her not to leave me, not to go. If I started crying for real, only her comfort could make me stop, and if she died before she had finished comforting me, then I would be left to cry forever.

~ Jean Hegland

Why are you sad, when you can sing a song?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

How could we be sorrow, if there is a song?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sorrow is sorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

~ Augusten Burroughs

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.

~ Patch Adams

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

~ Dante Alighieri

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

~ Oscar Wilde

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn’t want to cause any unhappiness now—in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn’t here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.

~ W. Bruce Cameron

There is often grief that comes with loving, Moshe. But it is worth it.

~ Bodie Thoene

Today my uncle died.and i am not feeling sad because he is dead.i am sad about that i can never see him alive again in my whole life.

~ Sher E Yazdan

For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now.

~ Robin Hobb

Every heart has a layer of sadness, whether deeply buried or covering the surface for all to see.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes I hear the echo of your voice in an empty hall and it reminds me that you're gone.

~ Sylvain Reynard

I’m not weeping, I’m not complaining,Happiness is not for me.

~ Anna Akhmatova

Maybe the only thing that lasts is our memories of each other...

~ Sylvain Reynard

There was sadness in everything—in the room, in the ringing bird-calls from the garden, in the lit, golden lawn beyond the window, with its single miraculous cherry-tree breaking in immaculate blossom and tossing long foamy sprays against the sky. She was sad to the verge of tears, and yet the sorrow was rich—a suffocating joy.

~ Rosamond Lehmann

Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.

~ Rebecca West

I close my eyes and press my face into his shirt and howl against him, liquid agony pouring from me. He smooths my hair from my face and continues to murmur, but he never shushes me, never tells me to stop. Never tells me it'll be all right. He knows life too well to believe such lies.

~ Aprilynne Pike

She left, never to return. I planted a tree and a seed each time I thought of her. I grew a small forest and a large garden and had no one to give the orchids to.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

I kiss your tear-stained cheeks, tasting the saltiness of a hidden sea of sorrow.

~ John Mark Green

In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.

~ Anthony Liccione

Mourn with those who are sorrowful.Be happy with those who are joyful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes, I feel able to write lines about my life and about how I do feel everyday in such a huge book, but sometimes I either prefer to write one word that describe it or just to say nothing at all.

~ Sarah Keddar

One faerie - and then we were free. Just on more swing of my arm. And maybe one more after that - maybe one more swing, up and inward and into my own heart.

~ Sarah J. Maas

1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

my uncle died.and i don't feel sad because he died.but i felt so sad when i realize that i will never see him alive again in my whole life.

~ Sher E Yazdan

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

~ Dan Brown

Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.

~ Nina Sankovitch

Happy? asked Aquilina, with dreadful look, and a smile full of pity and terror. Ah, you do not know what it is to be condemned to a life of pleasure.

~ Honoré De Balzac

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

~ David Levithan

We have an obligation to feel guilty. The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.

~ Cristiane Serruya

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

~ A.b. Shepherd

Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me.

~ C.j. Archer

I wanted to putt my hand on this hand and hold it still under mine, made still by his made still. Oh he was bright and I was dark and I gave him all my darkness on that ship; but we joined, for all good things in the world, and to find somethin together; and loved, I never knew I could do it and was afraid; and on the bow of the ship that night that he said, What have we done Christy?I said, wonderin too, But somethin good will come of this, I know somethin good will come of this...Only sorrow came.

~ William Goyen

Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.

~ Magica Quartet

...sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ...

~ John Geddes

I believe you did not have a happy life.I believe you were cheated.I believe your best friends were loneliness and misery.I believe your busiest enemies were anger and depression.I believe joy was a game you could never play without stumbling.I believe comfort, though you craved it, was forever a stranger.I believe music had to be melancholy or not at all.I believe no trinket, no precious metal, shone so bright as your bitterness.I believe you lay down at last in your coffin none the wiser and unassuaged.Oh, cold and dreamless under the wild, amoral, reckless, peaceful flowers of the hillsides.

~ Mary Oliver