He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

Hard by the church stood the public house; so often the two are closely conjoined, honorably sharing both joys and sorrows.

Beauty was worthIts every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending,As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.

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.

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.

The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.

[...] zoals zij in de bus op weg naar Wierenbeke achter de chauffeur had gezeten met al het verdriet van Belgie in haar ogen.

We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do.

Keep your heart infinitesimally small and sorrow will never spy it, never plunge, never flap away with your heart in her claws.

I call the right axe Sorrow," she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.

She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.

Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.

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.

Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.