Top 70 Sorrow Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A father’s death is the most important event, the most heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man’s life.”

— Sigmund Freud

52. “As artists, we are eternally heartbroken.”

— Lady Gaga

53. “How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

54. “People think they know me, but they don’t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.”

— Michael Jackson

55. “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

— Khalil Gibran

56. “There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

— Charles Bukowski

57. “It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.”

— William Styron

58. “I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”

— Steve Maraboli

59. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

— Leo Tolstoy

60. “Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

61. “All who in this world render true service to God or man receive a preparatory training in the school of sorrow. The weightier the trust and the higher the service, the closer is the test and the more severe the discipline.”

— Ellen G. White

62. “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

63. “We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.”

— J.K. Rowling

64. “Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

65. “Life for me has not been a crystal stair.”

— Langston Hughes

66. “Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”

— Victor Hugo

67. “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

— Aeschylus

68. “Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

69. “I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”

— Pablo Neruda

70. “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

71. “Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

72. “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

— Charles Dickens