sorrow Quotes

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!