Humor Quote by Rick Detorie

“She feels a great pang of loss, an unexpected welling of sorrow mixed with confusion.”

— Julianna Baggott

“My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Another sigh came from the window-- quite a resigned sigh. 'She's life and hope and happiness, my whole world now.' He felt the quiver…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She…

— M.L. Stedman

“She wondered if she was alone in having nothing between the dullness of her own days and the sheer brilliance of this imagined life.”

— Colm Tóibín

“I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I cried for a little while, taking a kind of melancholy delight in my own tears, and then I fell asleep.”

— Barbara Cohen

“And now she was thinking of her own death, with her heart gripped not by fear but by the excitement of a great discovery,…

— Georges Bernanos

“For so long, I’d wanted to hear those words fall from her lips. I’d just had no idea that in those words there would…

— A.L. Jackson

“It enraged and exhausted me to observe how the common daily life callously demanded its due and devoured the abundance of optimism I had…

— Hermann Hesse

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

— Marian Keyes

“She looked about her again, on her feet, at her scattered melancholy comrades -- some of them so melancholy as to be down on…

— Henry James