Sorrow Quotes

• How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Sorrow
  • Parties
  • Dress Up

• Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand.

  

  Confucius
  • Hand
  • Sorrow
  • Heeds

• But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Pain
  • Choice
  • Suffer

• I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Life
  • Sorrow
  • Richer

• There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Peace
  • Rest
  • Sorrow

• For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Done
  • Sorrow
  • Ends

• The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.

  

  William Cowper
  • Path
  • Land
  • Sadness

• Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Painting
  • Faces

• Tis held that sorrow makes us wise.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Wise
  • Sorrow

• No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

  

  Epictetus
  • Fear
  • Sorrow
  • Servitude

• The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Childhood
  • Nostalgia
  • Cherish

• What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • Sleep
  • Patience
  • Sorrow

• Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Wise

• Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Today
  • Evil
  • Worry

• I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

  

  Karle Wilson Baker
  • Secret
  • Sorrow
  • Friendly

• In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.

  

  William Saroyan
  • Time
  • Mystery
  • Infinite

• The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Joy
  • Beauty
  • Birds

• She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Beauty
  • Sorrow

• Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Joy
  • Waves
  • Pools

• Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Suffering

• Sorrow was made for man, not for beasts; yet if men encourage melancholy too much, they become no better than beasts.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Sorrow
  • Melancholy
  • Beasts

• 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
  • Help
  • Learn
  • Sincerity

• Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Long
  • Seems

• Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Night
  • Laughter
  • Replies

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