Sorrow Quotes
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It is the story of obscure beginnings, the story of a boy who, barely eleven, after his father’s early death, had to take on the burden of being the “man of the family”; a story of great hardships, of vision and determination, of sorrow and success.
Bob Buford
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The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown.
James Stewart
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Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow.
Wallace Stegner
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I advise nobody to drown sorrow in cocoa. It is bad for the figure and it does not alleviate the sorrow.
Winifred Holtby
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There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.
Jane Austen
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Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.
Vittorio Alfieri
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Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
Rene Descartes
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Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.
Neil Diamond
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No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
Haruki Murakami
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All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
Euripides
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...repeating helps people get over sorrow. Otherwise the words build up in you, a lamentation, and you can't stop grieving.
Elana Dykewomon
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A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand.
Confucius
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To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.
Rumi
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Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?
William Blake
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Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
Gautama Buddha
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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.
Jane Austen
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Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its sweet oblivious antidote, cleanse the full bosom of all perilous stuff that weighs upon the heart.
William Shakespeare
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The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.
Walter de La Mare
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Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
William Faulkner
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For in the sorrow, there is also our happiness.
David Paul
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I do not know how I got through without breaking down, without my heart bursting from sorrow and shame.
Christina Stead