{"quotes":[{"text":"The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.","author":"Rob Liano","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-love","death-note","death-of-a-child","death-of-a-loved-one","grieve","grieving","inspiration","life","life-lessons","life-philosophy","loss","loss-of-a-child","loss-of-family","love","mourning","sorrow","sorrowful"],"id":35381,"author_id":"Rob+Liano"},{"text":"It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["death-and-dying","death-note","grave","graveyard","graveyard-book","happiness-positive-outlook","happiness","sorrow","sorrowful"],"id":78242,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["compassionate","concerned","consoling","despondent","disheartened","distressed","downcast","downhearted","empathetic","feel","full-of-pity","grief-stricken","heartbroken","humor","humour","impression","inconsolable","moved","people","sad","satire","sorrowful","sorry","sympathetic","unhappy","unsympathetic","upset"],"id":109503,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I love death because life hates me.","author":"Luffina Lourduraj","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death","depressed","depression","depression","life-and-living","life-changing","life-philosophy","life","lifelessness","melancholy","melancholy-suffering-happiness","miserable","miserable-life","misery","misery-and-sadness","sad","sadness","sorrow","sorrow","sorrowful","sorrowful-times","sorrows-sad-darkness","suicide","suicide-thoughts"],"id":116219,"author_id":"Luffina+Lourduraj"},{"text":"It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...","author":"John Green","tags":["augustus","cancer","pain","sad","sorrow","sorrowful"],"id":126160,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["happiness","highs-and-lows","joy","joyful","pain","sadness","sorrow","sorrowful"],"id":155347,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"There lives a weeperin each of us-a silent mourner honoring our despairwhen our willingness slain by helplessness continues to resurrect to be slaughtered again.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["continue","despair","each","helplessness","honour","mourn","mourners","mourning","poem","poetry","resurrect","sadness","sadness","silence","silent","slain","slaughter","sorrow","sorrow","sorrowful","spiritual","verse","weep","weepers","willingness"],"id":206770,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"For a few seconds Maria did not move, or even breathe, apparently. Then she gave a sorrowful gulp and, like all little girls, even those who speak to fantastical wild boars and mercurial horses, she collapsed in desperate sobs, of the kind that come so easily to a twelve-year-old, and so hard to a person of forty.","author":"Muriel Barbery","tags":["crying","sadness","sorrowful"],"id":209377,"author_id":"Muriel+Barbery"},{"text":"Life shall surely show you different situations. Yes! The good and the bad situations of life shall come your way. We are definitely bound to meet the ups and downs of life. Sometimes, it may seem that all odds are against you and you may have the real reasons to leave in sorrow but, if all things leave you, never ever leave smile.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["against-all-odds","bad-times","be-cheerful-always","difficulties-of-life","good-times","life-challenges","life-choices","never-leave-smile","rejoice","smile","smile-anyway","sorrowful","sorrowful-times","the-odds-of-life"],"id":210456,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.","author":"Karen Quan","tags":["drowning","haze","heartache","heartbreak","lost-love","madness","nostalgia","sad","sorrowful"],"id":225590,"author_id":"Karen+Quan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}