70 Sorrowful Quotes to Help You Cope with Heartache

Sorrowful Quotes: A collection of quotes about sorrow. Give yourself permission to feel and talk about how you feel. Cry, write in a journal, or talk to a trusted friend or therapist about your feelings. This will help you let go of them and start the healing process. Enjoy our sorrow quotes collection by famous authors, poets, and philosophers. Best sorrow quotes selected by thousands of our users!

Sorrowful Quotes

“There a painless death awaits
him who can no longer
bear the sorrows of this
life. If death is welcome
let him seek it there.”
~ Anonymous

“I guess that’s just part
of loving people: You have
to give things up. Sometimes
you even have to give
them up.” ― Nitya Prakash

“I think that you never
fall out of love with
somebody, you just let go
and move on.” — Ashley
Rickards

″ ‘When I was alive
and had a human heart,’
answered the statue, ‘I did
not know what tears were,
for I lived in the
Palace of Sans-Souci, where sorrow
is not allowed to enter.’
” ~ Anonymous

“One of the best times
for figuring out who you
are & what you really
want out of life? Right
after a break-up.” ― Mandy
Hale

“Flowers teach us that nothing
is permanent: not their beauty,
not even the fact that
they will inevitably wilt, because
they will still give new
seeds. Remember this when you
feel joy, pain, or sadness.
Everything passes, grows old, dies,
and is reborn.” ― Paulo
Coelho

“I mean talk. Never forget
that God is your friend.
And like all friends, He
longs to hear what’s been
happening in your life. Good
or bad, whether it’s been
full of sorrow or anger,
and even when you’re questioning
why terrible things have to
happen. So I talk with
him.” ~ Anonymous

Sorrowful Quotes About Life

“I knew the human exaggeration
for sorrow—a broken heart. I’d
always thought of it as
a hyperbole. I wasn’t expecting
the pain in my chest.”
~ Anonymous

“Don’t waste today by talking
about yesterday until it’s finally
tomorrow.” ― Tim Fargo

“If you have a sorrow
that you cannot tell to
anyone, you can go to
our Father in Heaven.” ~
Anonymous

“In a moment all the
heavy sorrow and misery which
sleep had banished were upon
him again, and he realized
that he was no longer
a petted prince in a
palace, with the adoring eyes
of a nation upon him,
but a pauper, an outcast,
clothed in rags, prisoner in
a den fit only for
beasts, and consorting with beggars
and thieves.” ~ Anonymous

“No care and no sorrow,
A fig for the morrow!
We’ll laugh and be merry,
Sing neigh down derry!” ~
Anonymous

“After a while, though, even
the deepest sorrow faltered, even
the most penetrating despair lost
its scalpel edge.” ~ Anonymous

“Sometimes we can only find
our true direction when we
let the wind of change
carry us” ― Mimi Novic

“You can’t move things by
not moving.” ― Suzy Kassem

Quotes About Sorrow And Grief

“And then Mae found herself
sobbing. Her father was a
mess . . . And
there was nothing she could
do for him. No, there
was too much to do
for him. She could quit
her job. She could quit
and help make the phone
calls, fight the many fights
to keep him well. This
is what a good daughter
would do. What a good
child, an only child, would
do.” ~ Anonymous

“When you get your heart
broken, other people can help
you pick the pieces up,
but only you can glue
the pieces back together.” ―
Sam Madison

“My mom was still my
mom, even if she only
lived in books and door
locks and the smell of
fried tomatoes and old paper.
She lived.” ~ Anonymous

“The most difficult aspect of
moving on is accepting that
the other person already did.”
― Faraaz Kazi

Better than one heart be
broken a thousand times in
the retelling, he has decided,
if it means that a
thousand other hearts need not
be broken at all. ~
Anonymous

″‘O, unhappy people!’ she cried.
‘Tomorrow will bring sorrow, but
the day after will bring
laughter! Prepare to mingle your
colours!‘” ~ Anonymous

“The person who doesn’t value
you is blocking you from
the one who will. Let
them go.” — Robert Tew

Quotes On Sorrow Behind Smile

“That’s all you can do
in this world, no matter
how strong the current beats
against you, or how heavy
your burden, or how tragic
your love story. You keep
going.” ― Robyn Schneider

“He knew, but it was
not enough. The sorrow was
so large it threatened to
tear through my skin. All
things swift, beautiful, and bright
when he died would be
buried with him.” ~ Anonymous

“You stop revisiting memories when
you outgrow the people you
made them with.” ― Nikki
Rowe

“If it doesn’t agree with
your spirit let it go.”
― Germany Kent

“Then she would laugh like
the very spirit of fun;
only in her laugh, there
was something missing. What it
was, I find myself unable
to describe. I think it
was a certain tone, depending
upon the possibility of sorrow—morbidezza,
perhaps. She never smiled.” ~
Anonymous

“I do not understand how
a man can be a
true believer, in whom sin
is not the greatest burden,
sorrow and trouble.” ~ Anonymous

“No one is worth wasting
a gorgeous weekend over.” ―
Susane Colasanti

“Then sorrowed I, and sorrow
now again, When I direct
my mind to what I
saw, And more my genius
curb than I am wont,
That it may run not
unless virtue guide it…” ~
Anonymous

Sadness Quotes About Love And
Pain

“There’s a reason why golfers
walk forward to their next
shot. It’s to move on.”
― J.R. Rim

“Behind every trial and sorrow
that He makes us shoulder,
God has a reason.” ~
Anonymous

“Burn away and burn every
burning sorrow that burns you
like a burning star and
awaken all that you would
burn for to burn away
every burning scar.” ~ Anonymous

″ One of the most
interesting and remarkable things Christians
learn is that laughter does
not exclude weeping. Christian joy
is not an escape from
sorrow. Pain and hardship still
come, but they are unable
to drive out the happiness
of the redeemed.” ~ Anonymous

“Yesterday is not ours to
recover, but tomorrow is ours
to win or lose.” ―
Lyndon B. Johnson

“The great courageous act that
we must all do, is
to have the courage to
step out of our history
and past so that we
can live our dreams.” ―
Oprah Winfrey

“Kill the part of you
that believes it can’t survive
without someone else.” ― Sade
Andria Zabala

Sad Quotes About Love

“I always get to where
I am going by walking
away from where I have
been.” — A. A. Milne,
Winnie the Pooh

“If I’d just had a
mother so I could say
Mother Mother.” ~ Anonymous

“I demolish my bridges behind
me…then there is no choice
but to move forward.” —
Fridtjof Nansen

“I realized that there was
no point or sense in
chasing after happiness that had
perished.” ― Mikhail Lermontov

“You’ll be surprised to know
how far you can go
from the point where you
thought it was the end.”
― Faraaz Kazi

“Sometimes, you’re the one who
strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it’s
the other poor bastard who’s
left with the short straw,
and you just have to
shut up and get on
with it.” ― M.L. Stedman

“No matter how bad you
want a person, if your
hearts are in two different
places, you’ll have to pass
and move on.” — Alexandra
Elle

“The relief of moving on
will eclipse the pain of
letting go.” ― Scott Stabile

Quotes About Sad

“Don’t try to worry about
the things that could’ve to
happen. Just wonder about the
things that can still happen
and fight for them. Because
anything worth fighting for will
happen in time.” ― Imania
Margria

“I ran to my room
and fell onto the bed,
burying my face in the
pillow to hide the sobs
that wrenched my insides. All
my disappointment over not getting
into Central High and the
mob chase and the big
sudden changes in my life
over the past few weeks
came crashing in on me.”
~ Anonymous

“Whenever I was asked what
I wanted my first impulse
was to answer “Nothing.” The
thought went through my mind
that it didn’t make any
difference, that nothing was going
to make me happy.” ~
Anonymous

“She had the feeling that
somehow, in the very far-off
places, perhaps even in far-off
ages, there would be a
meaning found to all sorrow
and an answer too fair
and wonderful to be as
yet understood.” ~ Anonymous

“…beauty alters the grain of
reality. And I keep thinking
too of the more conventional
wisdom: namely, that the pursuit
of pure beauty is a
trap, a fast track to
bitterness and sorrow, that beauty
has to be wedded to
something more meaningful.” ~ Anonymous

“But in Australia a model
child is – I say
it not without thankfulness- an
unknown quantity. It may be
that the miasmas of naughtiness
develop best in the sunny
brilliancy, of our atmosphere. It
may be that the land
and the people are young-hearted
together, and the children’s spirits
not crushed and saddened by
the shadow of long years’
sorrowful history.” ~ Anonymous

“The secret to life is
to have no fear. When
you can let go of
what others think about you,
how something is going to
turn out, or how your
past will affect your future,
then you are finally living
life free.” ― Shannon L.
Alder

Sad Hurt Quotes

“Sometimes it’s better to end
something & try to start
something new than imprison yourself
in hoping for the impossible.”
― Karen Salmansohn

“Is not my sorrow deep,
having no bottom?” ~ Anonymous

“The only real battle in
life is between hanging on
and letting go.” ― Shannon
L. Alder

“The grace is not about
forgetting, but knowing you can
start anew.” ― Ana Tejano

“‘But please, please—won’t you—can’t you
give me something that will
cure Mother?’ Up till then
he had been looking at
the Lion’s great feet and
the huge claws on them;
now, in his despair, he
looked up at its face.
What he saw surprised him
as much as anything in
his whole life. For the
tawny face was bent down
near his own and (wonder
of wonders) great shining tears
stood in the Lion’s eyes.
They were such big, bright
tears compared with Digory’s own
that for a moment he
felt as if the Lion
must really be sorrier about
his Mother than he was
himself. ‘My son, my son,’
said Aslan. ‘I know. Grief
is great. Only you and
I in this land know
that yet. Let us be
good to one another.‘” ~
Anonymous

“And in the fireplace itself,
in a black pan set
on a high wire rack,
peanuts roasted over the hickory
fire as the waning light
of day swiftly deepened into
a fine velvet night speckled
with white forerunners of a
coming snow, and the warm
sound of husky voices and
rising laughter mingled in tales
of sorrow and happiness and
days past but not forgotten.”
~ Anonymous

“When the queen at last
set down the parchment and
met her daughter’s eyes, Ani
was expecting an accusing stare
and was surprised by the
sorrow that weighed down her
features. She could not tell
if the sorrow was for
her father or for her.
A thought buzzed in Ani’s
head: I do not know
this woman at all. Her
stomach turned uneasily.” ~ Anonymous

“They walked the whole day
over the meadows, fields, and
stony places; and when it
rained the little sister said:
‘Heaven and our hearts are
weeping together.’ In the evening
they came to a large
forest, and they were so
weary with sorrow and hunger
and the long walk, that
they lay down in the
hollow tree and fell asleep.”
~ Anonymous

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Deepest Sadness Quotes

“You cannot control the way
people treat you, but you
can control how you feel
about the way they treat
you. Simply put, you cannot
choose people’s actions but you
can decide your reactions.” ―
Olaotan Fawehinmi

“Every day has a past.
Every day has a tomorrow.”
― Amy Meyerson

“When I let go of
what I am, I become
what I might be. When
I let go of what
I have, I receive what
I need.” –Lao Tzu

“Never in word or deed
or thought while with them
had I betrayed my sorrow
even to myself.” ~ Anonymous

“Sometimes you must let people
go because their pieces no
longer fit. This departure is
for the betterment of your
energy, your space and your
precious life.” ― Melody Lee

“My momma and poppa appeared
from the shadows. They flew
to me and wrapped their
arms around me and cooled
my face with their ghost
tears.” ~ Anonymous

“The night was getting more
and more frantic. I wished
Dean and Carlo were there
– then I realized they’d
be out of place and
unhappy. They were like the
man with the dungeon stone
and the gloom, rising from
the underground, the sordid hipsters
of America, a new beat
generation that I was slowly
joining.” ~ Anonymous

“What had happened to T.J.
in the night I did
not understand, but I knew
that it would not pass.
And I cried for those
things which had happened in
the night and would not
pass.” ~ Anonymous

“The greatest win is walking
away and choosing not to
engage in drama and toxic
energy at all.” ― Lalah
Delia

“Your dear love, Bathsheba, is such a vast thing beside your pity that the loss of your pity as well as your love is no great addition to my sorrow, nor does the grain of your pity make it sensibly less.” ~ Anonymous

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