Jocelyn add a quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:39:42 -0800

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jocelyn add a quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:39:56 -0800

"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum." -- Jonathan Safran Foer

Jocelyn add a quote by Rumi

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:40:17 -0800

"Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place." -- Rumi

Jocelyn add a quote by Haruki Murakami

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:40:29 -0800

"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

Jocelyn add a quote by William Shakespeare

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:41:04 -0800

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." -- William Shakespeare

Jocelyn add a quote by Jandy Nelson

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:41:38 -0800

"grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no one can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out" -- Jandy Nelson

Jocelyn add a quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:42:04 -0800

"Time Does Not Bring Relief Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the tide; The old snows melt from every mountain-side, And last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane; But last year’s bitter loving must remain Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide. There are a hundred places where I fear To go,—so with his memory they brim. And entering with relief some quiet place Where never fell his foot or shone his face I say, “There is no memory of him here!” And so stand stricken, so remembering him." -- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Jocelyn add a quote by Mary Oliver

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:42:31 -0800

"The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift." -- Mary Oliver

Jocelyn add a quote by Shannon L. Alder

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:43:09 -0800

"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie." -- Shannon L. Alder

Jocelyn add a quote by Kahlil Gibran

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:43:37 -0800

"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow." -- Kahlil Gibran

Jocelyn add a quote by Craig Silvey

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:45:19 -0800

"Sorry. Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave. Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift." -- Craig Silvey

Jocelyn add a quote by Henry James

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:46:03 -0800

"Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain." -- Henry James

Jocelyn add a quote by Kahlil Gibran

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:46:16 -0800

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." -- Kahlil Gibran

Jocelyn add a quote by Lang Leav

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:47:07 -0800

"What was it like to lose him?" Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded: It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me—said all at once." -- Lang Leav

Jocelyn add a quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:48:13 -0800

"...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Jocelyn add a quote by H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:48:25 -0800

"If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim." -- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Jocelyn add a quote by Gregory Maguire

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:49:24 -0800

"Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face." -- Gregory Maguire

Jocelyn add a quote by Françoise Sagan

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:49:59 -0800

"A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else." -- Françoise Sagan

Jocelyn add a quote by Anonymous

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:50:10 -0800

"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge the more grief." -- Anonymous

Jocelyn add a quote by Cormac McCarthy

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:50:27 -0800

"The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow." -- Cormac McCarthy

Jocelyn add a quote by John Banville

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:51:47 -0800

"We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations." -- John Banville

Jocelyn add a quote by Nikita Gill

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:52:48 -0800

"The saddest word in the whole wide world is the word almost. He was almost in love. She was almost good for him. He almost stopped her. She almost waited. He almost lived. They almost made it." -- Nikita Gill

Jocelyn add a quote by R.F. Kuang

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:52:58 -0800

"You asked how large my sorrow is. And I answered, like a river in spring flowing east." -- R.F. Kuang

Jocelyn add a quote by Jesmyn Ward

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:53:02 -0800

"Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe." -- Jesmyn Ward

Jocelyn add a quote by Vernor Vinge

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:54:31 -0800

"I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt." -- Vernor Vinge

Jocelyn add a quote by N.K. Jemisin

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:55:08 -0800

"...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears." -- N.K. Jemisin

Jocelyn add a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:57:17 -0800

"That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us" -- Rainer Maria Rilke

Jocelyn add a quote by Emma Forrest

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:57:30 -0800

"But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine." -- Emma Forrest

Jocelyn add a quote by C.S. Lewis

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:58:48 -0800

"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process." -- C.S. Lewis

Jocelyn add a quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:59:00 -0800

"Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and people, Sick of the city, wanting the sea" -- Edna St. Vincent Millay