Sorrow Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done.

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Hang sorrow, care'll kill a cat.

Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.

My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.

Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the color’s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Most Christians would rather be happy than feel the wounds of other peoples' sorrows.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together!

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy.

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.

I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.