Quotes about Sorrow
Lay my head on the railroad line, Train come along, pacify my mind.
- Toni Morrison
God take what He would, she said. And He did, and He did, and He did.
- Toni Morrison
You are my face; I am you. Why did you leave me who am you? I will never leave you again Don't ever leave me again You will never leave me again You went in the water I drank your blood I brought your milk You forgot to smile I loved you You hurt me You came back to me You left me I waited for you
- Toni Morrison
He wanted her in that room with him giving him the balance he was losing, the ballast and counterweight to the stone of sorrow New York City had given him.
- Toni Morrison
One by fire, one by water, two of what he had so intensely loved gone, he thought. He couldn't lose a third.
- Toni Morrison
The God who allows sorrows is the God of sweet new seasons too.
- Tony Evans
Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.
- George W. Bush
Our lives are best understood, and our sorrows are best borne, when they are recognized as "playing" within a drama that God himself entered, in the person of his Son, so that the human drama might become, through the redemption, a divine comedy, not a cosmic tragedy or absurdity.
- George Weigel
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
- Dante Alighieri
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
- Emily Bronte
Sorrow makes us all children again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
- Jack Kerouac