Sorrow Quotes

Silence is sorrow's best food.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

My mom told me that I should trust the man who could see the sorrow behind my smile, the love behind my anger, and the reasons behind my silence.

Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

Great sorrows cannot speak.

Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

Earth has no sorrow that earth can not heal.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

And her joy was nearly like sorrow.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Well, I git enough sorrow. I like to git away from it.

Thus every dog at last will have his day - He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow; The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

The finishing stroke of all sorrow.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy.

Yes, my mother's death is a terrible sorrow to me. I feel - do you know what I mean - the silence of it so. She was more alive than anyone I have ever known.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

Half the joys and half the sorrows of this world are discovered in bed.

Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

When great armies go to war, Sorrow is the sole winner.

I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.

I entrench myself in my books equally against sorrow and the weather.

You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.

I have come to realize you can never be truly happy unless you've known some sorrow.

What I'm sowing today, I be reaping tomorrow So here's some joyful bars, to replace your sorrow.

Grief should be the instructor of the wise; Sorrow is Knowledge.

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.