Quotes tagged ‘Sorrow’

(67 total)

“I have to keep going. And no one can ever take away the dream.”

“I have never seen the ocean, she said, but I think about it often— whenever I cry.”

“Be careful in the world of men, Diana. They do not deserve you. You have been my greatest love. Today, you are my greatest sorrow.”

— Geoff Johns, Allan Heinberg, Zack Snyder, Jason Fuchs, Steve Trevor, Chris Pine, imdb.com

“Captain Flint: You were right. About the toll it took. Playing this... part. Losing Miranda. The... things that losing Miranda drove me to. So, I know what you're feeling at the moment. John Silver: I perceived its effects on you. What I assumed was sorrow, loneliness, and, most of all, terror at th…”

— Marc Berzenski, Josh Rothenberger, John Silver, Luke Arnold, imdb.com

“Keeping my face pinched in sorrow for two hours straight's a real chore.”

— Daniel Cerone, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“I've buried more friends in the last year than any of you can count! And when it's all over who knows how many of us will be left? So I don't need a bunch of immature 20-somethings, who just figured out how to wipe their own asses telling me how to act or feel! When y'all have walked a mile in my sh…”

— Janet Mock, Ryan Murphy, Pray Tell, Billy Porter, imdb.com

“Excess of happiness must always end in sorrow.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“…beneath this crust, hundreds of fathoms down, there teems a world of checkered life in all its changing forms, a world of the same composition as ours, with the same instincts, the same sorrows, and also, no doubt, the same joys; everywhere the same struggle for existence. So it ever is. If we pene…”

— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com

“Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal, or heaven cannot heal, for the earth as seen in the clean wilds of the mountains is about as divine as anything the heart of man can conceive!”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“One doesn't know another's sorrow.”

— Yiddish Proverbs, archive.org

“Don't be sorry your darkness is gone. I'll carry it for you. Always. I'll keep it with mine.”

— Scott Buck, Tim Schlattmann, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.”

— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org

“My Countrymen: It is a relief to feel that no heart but my own can know the personal regretan bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myself.”

— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com

“Yet it was in that vale that her sorrow had taken shape, and she did not love it as formerly. Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.”

— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com

“Our romance won't end on a sorrowful note Though by tomorrow you're gone; The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote The melody lingers on”

— George Gershwin, open.spotify.com

“Men prefer sorrow over joy... suffering over peace!”

— Akira Kurosawa, imdb.com

“I found if sorrow was dead within me, so was love and desire of sympathy. Yet sorrow only slept to revive more fierce, but love never woke again--its ghost, ever hovering over my father's grave, alone survived--since his death all the world was to me a blank except where woe had stampt its burning w…”

— Mary Shelley, online-literature.com

“I felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”

— James Dashner, amazon.com

“Before men decline into old age, even in the very bloom of youth, they are involved in many troubles, and they cannot escape from the cares, weariness, sorrows, fears, griefs, inconveniences, and anxieties to which mortal life is subject.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

“Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no-one to love in return…”

— L. Frank Baum, amazon.com