Sorrow Quotes

We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.

There is some joy in weeping. For our tears Fill up the cup, then wash our pain away.

Concealed sorrow bursts the heart, and rages within us as an internal fire.

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

For over half a century the automobile has brought death, injury, and the most inestimable sorrow and deprivation to millions of people.

I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered]

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.

There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.

He warned me the greediest wishes cause the greatest sorrows.

Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

Great sorrow makes sacred the sufferer.

There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy.

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

To revive sorrow is cruel.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

I knew the human exaggeration for sorrow-a broken heart.

I heard black people sing and the emotion was overwhelming to me. The power of that with all the built in sorrow and joy was just overwhelming to me as a little kid. It was the real deal.

There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Our own cast-off sorrows are not sufficient to constitute sympathy for others.

Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows.