intense sorrow Quotes

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

...I am the immense shadow of my tears

I promised I'd save him, take him home! I promised him!" . . . Thomas hugged Chuck to his chest, squeezed him as tightly as possible, as if that could somehow bring him back, or show thanks for saving his life, for being his friend when no one else would. Thomas cried, wept like he'd never wept before. His great, racking sobs echoed through the chamber like the sounds of tortured pain. (pg 358 hardback)

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.

Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.

Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.