Certainty Quote by Dorothy Richardson

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

— George Herbert

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is seemed every…

— George Saunders

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed every person…

— George Saunders

“All he felt was sorrow, as if he’d been abandoned at the bottom of a deep, dark pit. That’s all it was—sorrow. That, and…

— Haruki Murakami

I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

— Alice Adams

All things are dark to sorrow.

— Augusta Jane Evans

“Everywhere, it seemed, in the tress and water and sky, a great worldwide sadness came pressing down on me, a crushing sorrow, sorrow like…

— Tim O'Brien

“When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder might have…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

— Sophocles

“But I explained that deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

— Juliet Marillier

“There is no despair so absolute as that which comes from the first moments of our first great sorrow when we have not yet…

— George Elliot