Sorrow Quotes

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

Joy and sorrow, beauty and deformity, equally pass away.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

On sorrow floats laughter.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

I would say my mind is always working - no matter where I am I continue to see opportunities all around me. My only sorrow is that I can't possibly explore them all!

Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.

Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.

I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.

Nobody notices your sorrow, your pain, but everyone notices your mistakes.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Don't be sad cause your sun is down, the night doesn't need your sorrow. Don't be sad cause the light is gone, just keep your mind on tomorrow.

Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

A cheerful demeanor makes brighter the day; as the sun, chasing darkness and sorrow away.

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

The bringers of joy have always been the children of sorrow.

If we knew what people had been through, their sorrow and suffering, we would not be so quick to judge.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.