Sorrow Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.