Gregory David Roberts Quotes

Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

Fans say I have a lot of sorrow in my eyes. It's true.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

I'm in mourning for my life.

There is no space wider than that of grief.

Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death, but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit, nor in the air, nor in our lives, nor on these terraces of billowing smoke. The genuine pain that keeps everything awake is a tiny, infinite burn on the innocent eyes of other systems.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

I had sadness for breakfast.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.