Quotes about Heartache
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying bitterly.
— 2 Samuel 13:19
Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
— 2 Samuel 13:20
But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
— 2 Samuel 19:4
So she got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while I was asleep. She laid him in her bosom and put her dead son at my bosom.
— 1 Kings 3:20
The next morning, when I got up to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I examined him, I realized that he was not the son I had borne.”
— 1 Kings 3:21
My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart.
— Job 17:11
All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
— Job 19:19
When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
— Psalm 73:21
Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
— Proverbs 14:13
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
— Jeremiah 9:1
See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
— Lamentations 1:20
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
— Lamentations 2:11