Sorrow Quotes

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.

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.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Patience is sorrow's salve.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.