Sorrow Quotes

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.