lingering sorrow Quotes

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

The things in our lives that die and can't be laid to rest hurt the most.

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

There are griefs which grow with years.