“There is not one moment when that feeling of inadequate sorrow goes away. It just lessens and lessens, until it is mostly… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish. — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness. — Susan Hale Copy Share Image
The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as… — Thomas Binney Copy Share Image
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else. — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“Sorrow was my constant companion, even though I no longer wept. It was the shadow that followed me on sunny days, the… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and… — Giovanni Giocondo Copy Share Image
If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you… — William Blake Copy Share Image
This old heart of mine won't let you break it, not again. I've been hurt so many times and I can't take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I understand why sin eaters were made. Carrying such feelings is too much for one little heart, too much for one body.… — Megan Campisi Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I, too, have felt that the war goes on and on. When my son, Ian, died at El Alamein-- side by side… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“And the purple parted before it, snapping back like skin after a slash, and what it let out wasn't blood but light:… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Victor," said he, "that I do not suffer also? No one could love a child more than I loved… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“After the Grand Perhaps” After vespers, after the first snow has fallen to its squalls, after New Wave, after the anorexics have… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.' — Charles Bradley Copy Share Image
“Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose. — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows - — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best.… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“Sorrow for sin brings hope. God alone is the true source of healing and protection for those who confess their sins to him.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sorrow - the price we pay for joy. Evil - price we pay for good. Death - price we pay for life.… — MO'Zee Copy Share Image
If your heart doesnt get what it want, it will have an empty space called hollow and sometimes when a hollow come… — Alvin Copy Share Image
None grieve so ostentatiously as those who rejoice most in heart. [Lat., Nulla jactantius moerent quam qui maxime laetantur.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
It’s what happens when two people become one: they no longer only share love. They also share all of the pain, heartache,… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Nay, the cure of my sorrow must come from gushing tears. Yet, is there any hope that this desolation can bring me… — Imru al-Qays Copy Share Image
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives. — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
“The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop we do.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image