Sorrowful Quotes

“It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.”
― Rob Liano

“The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,
the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“You are the beautiful half
of a golden hurt.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks

“Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.”
― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

“Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sorrow is an opportunity to appreciate happiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“There lives a weeper
in each of us-
a silent mourner honoring our despair
when our willingness slain by helplessness
continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again”
― Munia Khan

“Why be sad, when you can sing?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use. I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out.

"I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy, in that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged and bent, but otherwise restored, and faithful to all men in his healing office, and at peace. I see the good old man, so long their friend, in ten years' time enriching them with all he has, and passing tranquilly to his reward.

"I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

"I see that child who lay upon her bosom and who bore my name, a man winning his way up in that path of life which once was mine. I see him winning it so well, that my name is made illustrious there by the light of his. I see the blots I threw upon it, faded away. I see him, foremost of just judges and honoured men, brining a boy of my name, with a forehead that I know and golden hair, to this place---then fair to look upon, with not a trace of this day's disfigurement---and I hear him tell the child my story, with a tender and faltering voice.
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“People are just so mean for no reason.”
― Rebecca David

“Are warchildren so frightening? Are we not human, too?”
― Steven Raaymakers, A Canticle for the Fallen

“All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“Once you have known sorrow, you will appreciate happiness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“When there is too much sorrow in your heart, true compassion gets its ways out of it. Don’t make a will over your sorrow, nobody needs to inherit it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“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

“Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“For a few seconds Maria did not move, or even breathe, apparently. Then she gave a sorrowful gulp and, like all little girls, even those who speak to fantastical wild boars and mercurial horses, she collapsed in desperate sobs, of the kind that come so easily to a twelve-year-old, and so hard to a person of forty.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Life of Elves

“Both sinners and saints suffer. Suffering teaches us to appreciate each moment of this life. Sorrows open our hearts to all life experiences.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It is difficult. To be one who endures.”
― Amie Kaufman

“When we were young, she was the star in my heavens.”
― Amie Kaufman

“Repentance is a stark realization that we’re living a life of reconfigured standards that are not standards at all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Repentance takes root when the excessive estimation of who we are meets the reality of who we are not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When you sacrifice yourself in your life at the end only sorrowful and stupidity will remain for you because, those people will just pass over you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“I was leaving just when this place had become more than a sanctuary, when the command of the Suriel had become a blessing and Tamlin far, far more than a saviour or friend, I was leaving. It could be years until I saw this house again, years until I smelled his rose garden, until I saw those gold-flecked eyes. Home- this was home.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Why would I want to wake up? What was the point in waking up to a reality where I may never see my brother again?”
― Emily Grace, River Of Sorrows