Quotes and Sayings about Sorrow

The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

The world breaks us all and afterwards, some are stronger at the broken places.

It's funny how someone can break your heart, and you still love him with all the little pieces.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

We're all just a bunch of sad people doing what we have to do to make it until tomorrow.

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

The pain doesn't go away. You just make room for it.

Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.

"I'd forgotten what this felt like."
"Being hugged?" My voice was sandpaper-rough.
"Being held together."

We can either breathe through the pain or we can let it shape us.

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff,
Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. [...]
Be bloody, bold, and resolute: laugh to scorn
The power of man, for none of womas born
Shall harm Macbeth. [...]
Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound anf fury,
Signifying nothing.

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.

Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Compassion is not a weakness. It is a gift to be embraced.

For years, every time I'd close my eyes, I'd see monsters. Ones with claws as long as steak knives, teeth as sharp as glass. That was before I learned the worst ones always look human.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

Every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Wine has its uses... like revealing someone's true colors, for example.

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

He who can make people laugh has to be taken seriously; all people with power know that.

Don't waste your love on somebody who doesn't value it.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth
Than are dream't of in your Philosophy