Sorrow Quotes

I just can't sit back and wallow, In my own sorrow, but I know one fact: I'll be one tough act to follow.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Labor is rest from the sorrows that greet us; from all the petty vexations that meet us; from the sin-promptings that assail us; from the world-sirens that lure us to ill

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment. There are joys, of course, and they should be enjoyed. There are sorrows, and they should be passed over briefly.

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.

Courage, ne'er by sorrow broken! Aid where tears of virtue flow; Faith to keep each promise spoken! Truth alike to friend and foe!

The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.

Learn weeping, and thou shalt laugh gaining.

Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.

He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.

Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,And therefore let 's be merry.

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.

The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

In times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone and with our families.

When'er into thine eyes I see, All pain and sorrow fly from me. [Ger., Wenn ich in deine Augen sch' So schwindet all' mein Leid und Weh.]

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.

It is wrong to sorrow without ceasing.

There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.

To drink away sorrow.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.