Cora-groan Quote by Mervyn Peake

“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.”

— David Jones

“They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Sorrow and joy, he thought, so inextricably entwined that he could scarcely tell where one left off and the other began.”

— Jan Karon

“I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share.”

— Edwidge Danticat

“Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.”

— John Cheever

“They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.”

— William Golding

“I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.”

— William Shakespeare

“Sorrow ought to be private, she thinks, not flaunted.”

— khaled hosseini

“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.”

— Helen Garner

“Tragic phrases comfort the heart… Without them, sorrow would be too heavy for men to bear.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It’s one thing to feel sorrow, and another to actually do something about it.”

— Kevin Alan Milne

“They sat a long time in silence, each chained to a separate wound.”

— Casper Silk