"Half the night I waste in sighs,Half in dreams I sorrow afterThe delight of early skies;In a wakeful dose I sorrowFor the hand, the lips, the eyes,For the meeting of the morrow,The delight of happy la..."
- Alfred Tennyson
"Do you think it’s easy for me? No, I don’t remember you. I don’t remember holding you or talking to you or falling in love with you—but I walk around with a giant hole in my heart all the time. I feel..."
- Gwen Hayes
"Though sorrow may impede my heart,It is of great love to have known you."
- C. Elizabeth
"It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, music, the physics of falling leaves, vanilla and jasmine, poppies, smili..."
- Roman Payne
"I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard."
- Charles Bukowski
"It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the ..."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it i..."
- Joseph Campbell
"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alon..."
- Carson McCullers