Sorrow Quotes

Joyously participate in the sorrows of others.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

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.

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

Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, With never a thought of sorrow; The old goes out, but the glad young year Comes merrily in tomorrow.

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.

Serve God joyfully. Let there be no sadness in your life: the only true sorrow is sin.

Genuine sorrows are very tranquil in appearance in the deep bed they have dug for themselves. But, seeming to slumber, they corrode the soul like that frightful acid which penetrates crystal.

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

All sorrows are bearable, if there is bread.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.

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

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.