Top 61 Quotes About Deep Sorrow

#1. You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

Thrity Umrigar

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#2. What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Christina Rossetti

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#3. Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.

Soseki Natsume

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#4. Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

John Milton

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#5. All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow,
All the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#6. Deep down in everyone was sorrow and certainty.

Dorothy Richardson

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#7. I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.

Alice Adams

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#8. Oh! sad is the night-time,
The night-time of sorrow,
When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom
Of the waves that may whelm us to-morrow.

Elizabeth Gaskell

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#9. Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind.

Mason Cooley

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#10. If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

Tori Amos

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#11. Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

Honore De Balzac

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#12. As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.

William Arthur Ward

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#13. The Baptist found him far too deep; The Deist sighed with saving sorrow; And the lean Levite went to sleep, And dreamed of tasting pork to-morrow.

Winthrop Mackworth Praed

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#14. It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Saint Ignatius

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#15. When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

Sophocles

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#16. Hope lives. No matter the mistakes we make, no matter our blunders and misunderstandings, no matter the grief and sorrow and loss, no matter how deep the darkness, hope lives.

Margaret Weis

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#17. O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep;
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms.
Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.

Jean Ingelow

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#18. No sin is necessarily connected with sorrow of heart, for Jesus Christ our Lord once said, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death." There was no sin in Him, and consequently none in His deep depression.

Charles Spurgeon

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#19. Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?

Ade Santi

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#20. I always think of my father when I sing arias about loss and love and longing. It gave me that definite deep sorrow that one can only get from life experience, you know?

Sondra Radvanovsky

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#21. Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#22. For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.

Louise Erdrich

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#23. Deep in earth my love is lying
And I must weep alone.

Edgar Allan Poe

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#24. 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.

Kahlil Gibran

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#25. It frightened her how deep her sobs could reach, as if someone was pulling sorrow from her bones.

Genevieve Valentine

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#26. how can i ever
breathe normally again

after having been cradled
by the kind of sorrow
so silent, that it nourishes

after having been swept
by the kind of joy
so absolute, that it wounds.

Sanober Khan

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#27. Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

Shannon L. Alder

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#28. Her smile, though, no, it was her laugh, a dusky, deep cascading laughter that caught the joy, implied and mocked the sorrow in every joy.

Lucia Berlin

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#29. He could not talk himself out of pain any longer. He had no one to be strong for. So finally, he cried. He cried with deep sobs, head bent to the ground, palms pressed to his eyes. He cried so hard that sorrow rushed out of his face. He cried until he felt like the sea.

Rachel Simon

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#30. True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.

J.C. Ryle

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#31. I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

Augusten Burroughs

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#32. In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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#33. The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#34. [P]erhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung.

Susan Griffin

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#35. Nurturing gratitude is preparation for the worst of days, the building of a compass that will be necessary to get back to life after the deep sorrow abates.

Hugh Hewitt

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#36. Bai Shen did not move. He gazed down at Miri, and she could still see the fear, but this time it was mixed with guilt and deep raging sorrow that she could only guess had less to do with her, and everything to do with setting one's heart on a plan that had proven itself to be The Dumbest Move Alive.

Marjorie M. Liu

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#37. It referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like.

Don DeLillo

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#38. Raistlin opened his eyes, looking at her without recognition. And in them, she saw deep, undying sorrow
the look of one who has been permitted to enter a realm of deadly, perilous beauty, and who now finds himself, once more, cast down into the grey, rain-swept world.

Tracy Hickman

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#39. Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness, deep below lies the quenching heart, which is flowing with energy and bloody rain.

Santosh Kalwar

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#40. My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

George Eliot

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#41. There does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.

Katherine Mansfield

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#42. I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

Louise Penny

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#43. All he felt was sorrow, as if he'd been abandoned at the bottom of a deep, dark pit. That's all it was - sorrow. That, and simple physical pain.

Haruki Murakami

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#44. Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.

Tryon Edwards

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#45. I had been right the first time. His sonorous voice echoed through a hollow place of sorrow, catching its reverberations from those ragged walls. His gaiety masked a deep well of loneliness; he was a bright outward shape wrapped around shadows.

Sharon Shinn

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#46. He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she'd made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him.

Ken Bruen

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#47. To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

Sophocles

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#48. I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

Selma Lagerlof

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#49. Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

Edward Hirsch

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#50. ... and the only thing common to all of this is that I feel sorrow so deep, it must be love ...

Paul Harding

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#51. The closer we are to God, the more the slightest sin will cause us deep sorrow.

R.C. Sproul

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#52. He utterly honored his sorrow, gave in to it with such deep and boundless weeping that it seemed as I stood there he was the bravest man I had ever known.

Kathleen Collins

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#53. If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life
unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

Frederic Dan Huntington

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#54. It is time to end a story that began in sorrow and ordeal and has ended in a deep and lasting happiness. May it be so for others.

Anne McCaffrey

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#55. Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
Yes, into Life's deep stream!
All forms of sorrow and delight,
All solemn Voices of the Night,
That can soothe thee, or affright, -
Be these henceforth thy theme.
(excerpt from "Voices of the Night")

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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#56. Why is crying so pleasurable? I feel clean, absolutely purged after it. As if I had a grief to get over with, some deep sorrow.

Sylvia Plath

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#57. Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Ezra Taft Benson

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#58. Astley comes to my side. "Are you well?" "No," I tell him, voice hoarse. "I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know ... I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again".

Carrie Jones

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#59. In past summers when I had been home, I had often tasted a strange sadness as I sat quietly in the midst of the seething cicada song. This sorrow seemed to pierce deep into my heart along with the piercing insect cry. Always at such times I would sit alone and still, gazing into myself.

Soseki Natsume

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#60. His love was so intense, yet his soul held so much sorrow. I wondered if his hurt went so deep that he could never heal.

A.L. Jackson

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#61. In the deep places he gives thought to music great and terrible; and the echo of that music runs through all the veins of the world in sorrow and in joy; for if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomed at the foundations of the Earth.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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