Sorrow Quotes

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

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 is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

Genius is sorrow's child.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

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

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for 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.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Patience is sorrow's salve.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.