“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same! — For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man's yesterday may ne'er be lik…”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn’t breaking. It hurts because it’s getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”— Rita Mae Brown, amazon.com
“Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.”— John Ruskin, amazon.com
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“...you will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.”— Christopher Pike, amazon.com
“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You’re trying to leave yourself behind, but you can’t. The more you try to run away from yourself, the more you’ll have yourself with you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.”— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org