Sorrows Quotes

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

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

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

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

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

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.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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.