Sorrow Quotes

No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?

William Shakespeare
- Blow
- Wounds
- Deeper
In the course of reading he [Alexander Pushkin] became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy. When the reading was over he uttered in a voice full of sorrow: "Goodness, how sad is our Russia!"

Nikolai Gogol
- Reading
- Voice
- Goodness

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Ezra Taft Benson
- Spirit
- Gift
- Realization
How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.

Bion of Borysthenes
- Stupid
- King
- Grief
I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

Soren Kierkegaard
- Friend
- Silence
- Sorrow
It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

Henry Rollins Black Flag
- Care
- Difficult
- Hours
Sorrow in the tongue will talk itself cured, if you give it a chance; but sorrow in the eyes has a wicked, wicked way now and then of leaking into the brain.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Brain
- Chance
- Sorrow
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in the face of much evidence, if you will) universal final defeat...giving a fleeting glimpse of Joy; Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief.

J. R. R. Tolkien