#sorrow

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#inside #joys #never #sorrows #tell

The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#good #good cheer #liar #promises #saloon

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#flashes #headed #home #i #knew

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#had #having #me #parents #solace

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. ↗

— Robin McKinley

#grief #heartbreak #loss #sorrow #beauty

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life. ↗

— George W. Bush

#dumb #loss #sorrow #death

Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave ↗

— Alison Croggon

#sorrow #death

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#family #grandmother #sorrow #death

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face? ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#rhianon #sorrow #the-visitor #death