Sorrow Quotes

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

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

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

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

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

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.

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.

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

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

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

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

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them.

Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

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

Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

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.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.

I am so thankful I had the strength and promises of a loving God to guide my choices and decisions, and to uphold me through the unbelievably dark days and times of overwhelming sorrow.

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.