Sorrows Quotes

He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

Love's boat has been shattered against the life of everyday. You and I are quits, and it's useless to draw up a list of mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.