Sorrow Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.

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.

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.

To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

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

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

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

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

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.

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

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

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

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

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

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

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.

Sorrow is not evil, since it stimulates and purifies.

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

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

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

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

How fleeting the sorrows of youth, how slight the foundations on which the young build towers of despair.

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow, That gave this gentle name.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.

I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.

. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.