Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

I'm in mourning for my life.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

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

Pearls mean tears.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

I was a very sad little girl.

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

I cry sometimes. I get very upset.

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

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

When I'm in pain and grief and despair, my throat is clenched and my heart hurts.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

The very word "sorrow" colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

She heard the trace of fear in his voice. The fear that a small boy must have felt when every woman he loved had disappeared from his life, swept away by a merciless fever. She didn’t know how to reassure him, or how to console his long-ago grief.

Indeed — why should I not admit it? — in that moment, my heart was breaking.

Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.