Sorrow Quotes

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you’re bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

~ Stephen King

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

~ Jocelyn Murray

Some people come into your life at the right time for the most intense reasons and then some leave your life at the perfect time for the most saddest of reasons, time decides who you meet & you decide who stays.

~ Nikki Rowe

To thee, to thee, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

No one likes a person that should of all over the place.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.

~ Saru Singhal

There was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

~ Joy Williams

Putting into words what exactly was off is not easy. I myself don’t even understand it. It was like a replica of my best friend was sitting in front of me, saying well-rehearsed lines at the wrong cues whilst I struggled to remember my dialogues. It was as if you had talked to me in some other language, a vernacular I used to be fluent in; but now, although the words sounded familiar, I really had no idea what you meant.

~ Jane Finn

I look back at the glimpse of light in the center of Magdalene, near her heart, and remember the beauty to be found even in sorrow--beauty as a result of transformation, an admission of weakness, and a total dependence on the Creator. Even in the darkest hour, our hearts can allow us to see the light.

~ Erika Robuck

I heard sad choirs in my mind. There was nothing left of Rachel in the world. He cherished what he'd shown me, and now it was gone. Eureka.

~ Scott Kelly

She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.

~ Naomi Wood

hThere was something shameful about surviving sorrow. You were corrupted. She was corrupted. She was no good anymore. She was inauthentic, apocryphal. She wanted to be a seeker and to travel further and further. But after sorrow, such traveling is not a climbing but a sinking to a depth leached of light at which you are unfit to endure. And yet you endure there.

~ Joy Williams

He wanted to crumple her up and toss her from his mind like a scrap piece of paper filled with nonsensical doodles or dissonant words that formed unbalanced rhymes. Yet, he refused throw her away.

~ Emmie White

It depends on you whether you want wrinkles or dimples on your face.

~ Raaz Ojha

Someday,” she said in a voice as serene as a high mountain lake, “I’m going to break your neck. Then I’m going to saw it off with a hacksaw so I can take my time.” Venom’s grin creased his cheeks.“I knew you had it in you, kitty.”(Venom & Sorrow)

~ Nalini Singh

Too much of anything is not good. But I love her too much.

~ Raaz Ojha

Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine I’m closer to the dam within me bursting open. He’s undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste of his mouth. In his arms, I’m changing, becoming anew.

~ Sarah Noffke

He wondered why he wasn't as in love with her as he was with...Hector had only shared enjoyment with (her)...he shared everything, enjoyment and sorrow...but for some time now they'd shared too much frustration, boredom and fatigue.

~ François Lelord

Doing this was likewading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. A sickening shock at first, then amazement thatyou were still moving, lifted up on a stream of steely devotion—calm above the surface of your life, surviving, though the pain ofthe cold continued to wash into your body.

~ Alice Munro

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians.

~ Buddhadeva Bose

Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.

~ Emma Donoghue

Because happiness alone is good for the body, whereas sorrow develops the strength of the mind.

~ Marcel Proust

A true friend is not the one you share laughter with. But the one you share laughter and sorrow with.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Raistlin opened his eyes, looking at her without recognition. And in them, she saw deep, undying sorrow--the look of one who has been permitted to enter a realm of deadly, perilous beauty, and who now finds himself, once more, cast down into the grey, rain-swept world.

~ Tracy Hickman

Nothing Is Important, Yet Everything Is Important

~ Shon Mehta

Once you have known sorrow, you will appreciate happiness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are innocently covered by sorrow, It shall be turned into joy.

~ Auliq Ice

I'm left with Haymitch in the rubble, wondering if Finnick’s fate would have one day been mine. Why not? Snow could have gotten a really good price for the girl on fire.

~ Suzanne Collins

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

~ John Piper

And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,Since the world can in no way answer our craving,I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat.

~ Li Bai

He stumbled out of his phlegmatic apathy,when she entered his life like an epiphany.

~ Neelniki

Everything I touch dies in my hand and the same thing's happening to you. You were vibrant when I met you, and now I've blanched the color from your cheeks and caused you nothing but pain.

~ H.m. Ward

. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn to be erased, for one final atonementfinite and forgetting and whole—but time in its preservingwill not permit forgetting; destroyingonly when we can no longer begor argue with time to preserve the brief benisonsa few moments longer than our sins

~ John Daniel Thieme

Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.

~ Aimée Dostoyevsky

War takes so many more casualties than just the dead.

~ Katherine L. Walker

As much as we don’t want to except it, there is a time limit to the best life God tries to offer you. When you disrespect it, push it away, play games with it, deny it, ignore it, are casually indecisive about it or hold it like a last resort, God gives it away to someone else that will cherish it more.

~ Shannon L. Alder

don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.

~ Jill Briscoe

Sorrow is allowed, sorrow is advised; all we have to do is let go, all we have to do is love.

~ Grégoire Delacourt

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

~ Napoleon Hill