Sorrow Quotes

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

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

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

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

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

I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

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

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

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

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

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

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.

Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

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

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

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

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it.

Real friends are our greatest joy and our greatest sorrow. It were almost to be wished that all true and faithful friends should expire on the same day.

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.

I sorrow that all fair things must decay.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

What man is there that does not laboriously, though all unconsciously, himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.

As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.

If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows.