Sorrier Quotes

#1. I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

Annie Dillard

#2. I think this experience will make him a better person. Or at least a sorrier one.

Gillian Flynn

#3. I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.

Carson McCullers

#4. Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, the sorrier I get for everyone.

Agatha Christie

#5. Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Jodi Picoult

#6. I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#7. Do so with gusto, because my God, there's nothing sorrier than a gusto-less existence.

David Arnold

#8. And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

Thomas Malory

#9. At nineteen they can card you in the bars and tell you to get the fuck out, put your sorry act (and sorrier ass) back on the street, but they can't card you when you sit down to paint a picture, write a poem, or tell a story.

Stephen King

#10. There was a sorry judge who lived at the Swan by himself. He got but little honor, and he got but little pelf [i.e. wealth], He drudged and judged from morn to night, no ass drudged more than he, And the more he drudged, and the more he judged, the sorrier judge was he.

St. George Tucker

#11. Wilde said he felt sorry for those who never got their heart's desire, but sorrier still for those who did.

Laurie Lee

#12. Far away, I can hear Mouflon, our last sheep, bleating in the dark. I wonder if Annie is still out to protect her, still scouring the woods in barefoot pursuit of those dogs. I feel sorry for Annie, alone with a rabid pack of her own delusions. I feel sorrier for Mouflon. She's alone with Annie.

Karen Russell

#13. No state sorrier than that of the man who keeps up a continual round, and pries into "the secrets of the nether world," as saith the poet, and is curious in conjecture of what is in his
neighbour's heart.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. How could I not come for you Moira? If I'd know who you were from the beginning I would have never let you get taken. I'm sorrier than you'll ever know.

Amy Lunderman

#15. The word griot ... is the word for what I do and the role that the filmmaker has in society ... the griot is a messenger of one's time, a visionary and the creator of the future.

Djibril Diop Mambety

#16. We went to L.A. as a family, with a sort of vision that we were going to 'make it,' whatever that meant.

Summer Phoenix

#17. And of course you believed their wise counsel," said Elizabeth lightly, "because people who have never met me are always the best judge of my character.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#18. Chang said, "I don't understand how you drink so much coffee." "Law of gravity," Reacher said. "If you tip it up, it comes right out. You can't help but drink it.

Lee Child

#19. Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.

Lilith Saintcrow

#20. I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands ... that wasn't me.

Solomon Burke

#21. Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you're going through, but it doesn't actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can't show you where the grass or the wells are.

Tim Cope

#22. Young actors are pretty fantastic. I can't even imagine doing stuff like that when I was a kid.

Donal Logue

#23. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace, wondrous grace. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

Bob Christopher

#24. It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

Epictetus

#25. What could possibly happen in the Tottenville Precinct? Nobody even knows where we are!

George R. Hopkins

#26. One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Markus Zusak

#27. I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.

Lance Gross

#28. Often a retrospect delights the mind.

Dante Alighieri

#29. There is no such thing as an "atrocity" in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.

Sydney J. Harris