Sorrow Quotes
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They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.
Albert Camus
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The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
William Osler
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There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot
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We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
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But, there's like a hole world out there! Filled with mystery and awe and sorrow and happiness.
Colin Meloy
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It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
Joseph Heller
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
William Lyon Phelps
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Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow.
Emily J. Miller
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No wonder sorrow doesn’t smile much. No wonder sadness is so sad.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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The only thing common to all of this is that I feel sorrow so deep, it must be love...
Paul Harding
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
Seneca the Younger
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Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams... it is real pain and it can’t be ignored.
Hayley Williams
Paramore
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You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
Thomas Hardy
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My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
Sun Myung Moon
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Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.
William Shakespeare
