Sorrow Quotes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

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.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of 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 my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

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.

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.