Sorrow Quotes

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.

Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

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.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

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

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

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.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.