Sorrow Quotes

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

You can't postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness?

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.

God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins."

She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment; love's sorrow lasts all through life.

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

Believe, meditate, see. Be harmless, be blameless. Awake to the law. And from all sorrows free yourself.

Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.

Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.