“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”— Naomi Shihab Nye, amazon.com
“To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.”— Rollo May, amazon.com
“Sitting mindfully with our sorrows and fears, or with those of another, is an act of courage. It is not easy.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“Many of the great sorrows of the world arise when the mind is disconnected from the heart.”— Jack Kornfield, twitter.com
“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”— Hubert Selby, amazon.com
“We do good when we make others forget their sorrow, make them forget for a little while.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com
“I am sorrowful. I am sorrowful that I happened to be born into a world where being disgusted with yourself was what you were supposed to be. I am sorrowful that my fellow countrymen feel that being human is something to repress, something ugly, something nasty. It's... It's just a fucking shame. It…”— Robert Jackson Bennett, amazon.com
“All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.”— Landon Parham, amazon.com
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”— Richard Matheson, 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
“I'm sorry I didn't tell you I loved you when I knew I did.”— Jake Coburn, Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, imdb.com
“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”— Hubert Selby Jr., amazon.com