Quotes About Sobs

#1. She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.

H. Raven Rose

#2. I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

Veronica Roth

#3. My soul's a little grief, grappling your chest,
To climb your throat on sobs; easily chased
On other sighs and wiped by fresher winds.

Wilfred Owen

#4. The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

Shannon Hale

#5. Crying. Milo was crying. It was a soft, muffled sound, but Jason's ears were quite powerful and the house was otherwise quiet. It sounded something like sobs and something like a dog's throat-whine. Aw. Hell.

Eli Easton

#6. I flipped on the switch marked "Shuddering Sobs," but nothing came.
Damnation! I used to be a dab hand at water on demand. What on earth was happening to me? Was I becoming hardened? Was this what being twelve was going to be like?

Alan Bradley

#7. My brother, he says. My brother is dead.
And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.

Dana Reinhardt

#8. The sobs tear at my throat. Who would have thought forty pills wouldn't be enough?

Tabitha Suzuma

#9. The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.

Chick Corea

#10. The only good thing about age is that sooner or later all of the SOBs who dumped you are going to die.

Joan Rivers

#11. And with that he began to laugh, not a laugh either, but a cackle, a hideous cackle like a rooster with its head on the block. It got him so badly that he had to stop and hold his guts; the tears were streaming down his eyes and between the cackles he let out the most terrible heartrending sobs.

Henry Miller

#12. True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans ...

Thomas Brooks

#13. My body is cracking from the pain I have swallowed so Many times, heaving with sobs I can no longer suppress, my dignity dissolving in my tears, the agony of these past few days ripping my skin to shreds.

Tahereh Mafi

#14. [W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

Suzanne Collins

#16. I love you, Emma, to the moon and stars," he whispered as his sobs ebbed.
"I love you beyond the moon and all its glory. I love you brighter than the stars could ever burn in the sky, brat," I answered back.

Amelia Hutchins

#17. I'm sorry, kitten. It'll all be over soon." I managed to say between sobs. "Meow." The kitten said. "Goodbye.

Michael Crow

#18. In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally tapering into sobs, were so far from mirth they might have been the forced inversion of laughter-like a soul pulled inside out to reveal its rawest meats.

Laini Taylor

#19. 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

#20. Elsa sobs as she unfolds it, the way one sobs when the tears have run out but not the crying.

Fredrik Backman

#21. Sobs force their way out of my throat. I feel like I'm trapped in a disaster movie where everything is shriveling into darkness and ash. Sunflowers are being uprooted. Puppies are being trampled. Whole cities are crumbling to dust.

Paula Stokes

#22. I could almost feel Meghan against me, shaking with sobs as she mourned her Winter prince. I could feel my arms around her as I whispered that it would be okay, that she still had me, and I would never leave. Ant then I wanted to kick myself in the head for thinking that

Julie Kagawa

#23. I don't even know how long she sobs. Time ceases to pass, and she cries, cries, cries. Clutches me and makes these sounds of a soul being ripped in two, the grief so long denied taking its toll. Fermented grief is far more potent.

Jasinda Wilder

#24. Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max

Clive Cussler

#25. Her fearful sobs, self-folding like a flower That faints into itself at evening hour:

John Keats

#26. I lay down on the bed clasping the pictures and buried my face in the pillow in a vain attempt at silencing my sobs. But it was as if all my life's accumulated grief had finally found an outlet and was allowed to take its course. I screamed, I cried, until the grief became bearable. (174)

Linda Olsson

#27. They pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their last paradise.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#28. I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.

Clare Boothe Luce

#29. There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

Joe L. Wheeler

#30. Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Mark Twain

#31. Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.

Mason Cooley

#32. his crying turned to quick, stabbing sobs. I must look for my family. I must search until I find them, wherever they are, he thought.

Arnold Ytreeide

#33. The sobs came then, faster than she could swallow. A teacher dares not cry, not a real teacher.

Richard Peck

#34. Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

Richard Sibbes

#35. You can cry in public as long as you don not sob. Tears are transparent. If you're walking fast, if the sun's too strong, no one notices. Sobs intrude. They push their way into people's consciousness. They feel duty-bound to ask what has happened.

Jerry Pinto

#36. Here and there is born a Saint Theresa, foundress of nothing, whose loving heart-beats and sobs after an unattained goodness tremble off and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.

George Eliot

#37. It's your boy," she said. "Somebody done killed your boy." I heard Leroy's deep sobs coming from inside the house, and I saw Jimmy lose his breath. Just for a moment, I wanted to be alive again. They had loved me. I had been loved in this old world, and now love was tearing them apart.

Eric Arvin

#38. I came along in the '60s having absorbed as much as I could up until then and added my own tastes and search into the equation. I guess that's how I see 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' in relation to the development of jazz in general.

Chick Corea

#39. I let the sobs overtake me then. This was not the way I imagined my life.

Carrie Ryan

#40. On the grave among the pine trees, a boy knelt weeping, his chest, racked by sobs, heaving in the darkness, oppressed by an immense grief gentler than the moon and more unfathomable than the night.

Gustave Flaubert

#41. I was so scared about being discovered, but nobody came. Nobody heard. In my own ears, though, my sobs sounded primal and scary, like something I would have turned off if I'd been able to.

Sarah Dessen

#42. His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber

Alison Weir

#43. And I ultimately not only addressed it, I named my two moods Roy and Pam. Roy is Rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood, and Pam is Sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs. (Pam stands for "piss and moan.") One mood is the meal, and the next mood is the check.

Carrie Fisher

#44. Moaning Myrtle burst into anguished sobs and fled from the dungeon. Peeves shot after her, pelting her with moldy peanuts, yelling, Pimply! Pimply!

J.K. Rowling

#45. Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry

#46. There had been silent tears and ones that barely leaked out. There were tears that heaved from her in great sobs. They all slipped through my fingers when I tried to catch them, and they fell around her in oceans.

Amy Zhang

#47. I heard a shout on the horizon, the sobs of someone who perhaps had died a century earlier in the room.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#48. Great, huge sobs for herself, for her relatives, for the torment and shame of her past, for losses which could never be recovered.

Sally Laity

#49. In Ronan's hand, the mask was as thin as a sheet of paper, still warm from Adam's gasped breaths. Orphan Girl buried her face in his side, her body shaking with sobs. Her tiny voice was muffled: "Tollerere me a hic, tollerere me a hic ... "
Take me away from here, take me away from here.

Maggie Stiefvater

#50. For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.

Helen Hunt Jackson

#51. But as soon as darkness enveloped the room, my sobs hit in full - great, gasping pants that shuddered through me, flowing out the open windows, and into the starry, snow-kissed night.

Sarah J. Maas

#52. Bongo's sobs are hurled out
like paintballs from a skirmish gun
until the force diminishes
into a trickle of sobs
that wind up the exorcism.

Emma Cameron

#53. Locke threw himself at Father Chains, and the man, without hesitation, scooped him up and held him, patting his back until his racking sobs quieted down.

Scott Lynch

#54. I have two moods. One is Roy, rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood. And Pam, sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs ... Sometimes the tide is in, sometimes it's out.

Carrie Fisher

#55. She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#56. Her brother is crying, he is wretched and broken. Though his sobs are barely audible, he is weeping with absolute and total abandon. Such a naked display of emotion is both alarming and frightening.

Julia Hoban

#57. Love is the pain of pleasure," I forced between sniveling sobs, "and pain is the pleasure of love.

Courtney Lane

#58. Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

Noel Coward

#59. I know I only want him,' she said between sobs, the syllables all wrong, 'because he doesn't want me. How is that even possible?'

'It's normal to want what we can't have,' I said soothingly.

'No, I mean how can he not want me?

Olivia Sudjic

#60. There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her.

Kate Williams

#61. When the moon sails out
with a hundred faces all the same,
the coins made of silver
break out in sobs in the pocket.

Federico Garcia Lorca

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

Genevieve Valentine

#63. He was half again my size, but when we embraced, I felt like I was holding him up, and it was all I could do to remain standing. He buried his face in my hair, his body shaking against me with the spasmodic rhythm of unrestrained sobs. It was almost more than I could bear gracefully.

Rachel Vincent

#64. Caspian sat there with me until my sobs died down to a slow hiccup.
Then he whispered, "I'd hold your hand right now if I could."
His eyes were so wide and earnest that I couldn't help but smile at him.
"Thanks," I said, trying to hold back more tears. "It's the thought that counts.

Jessica Verday

#65. It starts with a mild weeping but soon crescendos into the same tortured sobs as his little brother, both of them wailing in a strange harmony of misery.

Neal Shusterman

#66. Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.

Al Neuharth

#67. Gently with sobs at finally hearing the words she'd yearned to hear for so long.

Melody Anne

#68. He caught my hands as they pulled through my hair, and pulled my body against his, and I felt all the holes in me. My sobs echoed through them like caverns, and I never would have thought empty could be made of such weight.
I couldn't breathe around it.

Cora Carmack

#69. Enoch ... why are you here?
Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in a Swedish forest, standing on the wreck of a mysterious German rocket plane while a homosexual German sobs over the cremated remains of his Italian lover?

Neal Stephenson

#70. The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted, let yourself go and you started embellishing your own sobs.

Richard Yates

#71. I cried harder. I didn't want to, but I couldn't stop myself.
I couldn't stop myself, so I thought about all the bad things and I fed it and fed it until I was crying so hard I had to gasp for breath between sobs.

Ransom Riggs

#72. He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

Claire Tomalin

#73. A breath of steam trickles out, filled with the sobs of a grown woman breaking into girl-sized pieces.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#74. You are the best, most loving, supportive family anyone could ever have," I said through my sobs. "I'm so sorry if I'm a burden."
They all told me not to be so bloody silly, I told them not to swear, and Landen gave me a handkerchief for my tears.

Jasper Fforde

#75. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.

Sylvia Plath

#76. She stops speaking, but I can hear her silent sobs. They're the loudest thing I've ever heard.

Beth Revis

#77. What are you bracing for?" he asked. "I already told you I'm not going to hurt you."
Inexplicably, sobs caught in my chest, but I managed to respond, "You've already hurt me, Caleb. Why would you do that? Why?

C.J. Roberts

#78. I have seen my father concede to utter defeat in the hospital room. I've heard him choke on sobs and whisper angry things to the god of the sky when he thought I was asleep at Lex's bedside. I know that those uniforms are worn by men - only men.

Lauren DeStefano

#79. He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

Elizabeth Gaskell

#80. I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me.

Colleen Hoover