Sorrow Quotes

There's no such thing as old age, there is only 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.

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 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.

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

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

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.