Sorrow Quotes

Broken pencils still write beautiful songs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.

Jean Paul Richter

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue hath it.

Talmud

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.

More in sorrow than in anger.

William Shakespeare

There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Sorrow makes us all children again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some men above grief and some men below it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

In extreme youth in our most humiliating sorrow we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath.

When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!

William Shakespeare

Men who are unhappy like men who sleep badly are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell

What man is there that does not laboriously though all unconsciously himself fashion the sorrow that is to be the pivot of his life.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Cicero

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.

No one can keep his griefs in their prime they use themselves up.

Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

The busy have no time for tears.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.

Robert Browning Hamilton

Every noble crown is and on earth will ever be a crown of thorns.

All sorrows are bearable if there is bread.

Miguel de Cervantes

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.

William Shakespeare

About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Saki

One cannot weep for the entire world. It is beyond human strength. One must choose.

The day time will stop moving, had I known and fulfillment will be the clock hands that will show many people the hour that passed and moment in which they are.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Those who know you see your tears even in the rain.

Matshona Dhliwayo

There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Harold Bell Wright

Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren’t doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they’re contagious. They are, I believe.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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.

Voltaire

In life, you don’t have miracles, you don’t have anything but whatever you can hold on to.

Nandanie Phalgoo

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!

William Shakespeare

It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.

Christopher Moore

To laugh continually is to never laugh at all. For it takes the periodic sound of sorrow from which to distinguish the sound of joy.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Frailty, thy name is woman!—A little month, or ere those shoes were oldWith which she follow'd my poor father's body,Like Niobe, all tears:—

William Shakespeare

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Cornell Woolrich

I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.

Because life is a symphony it must have its C Minor. Days there be when we hear only a discord of sharps and flats, and we wonder whether harmony will ever be restored. On other days we hear only an ominous, deep strain which seems to say that hope is fled. But why this chill despair? Symphonies are a blending of many tones, high and low, over and under, major and minor. One day cannot make a life a whole any more than shadows can make a picture or minor notes a symphony. We need to hear life's song, not as the discord of a single day, but as the completed harmony of all the years. Then will today's sorrow and tomorrow's disappointment ring forth in major key as glorious melody.

W. Waldemar W. Argow

Time wasn't the same anymore. Doors were slamming shut before we even knew they'd been opened. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.

J.E.B. Spredemann

Wherefore is there ice and snow, chilling winds and bitter nights? Is it to mock the earth for its sunshine? No, not so! We forget that sunlight is impossible without shadows; that for every day there is a night; that for every joy there is a pain; that for every laugh there is a sob. Progress is never a straight line upward; always it is down and then around.

W. Waldemar W. Argow

Where is an intimate friend who’ll hear the secret from me straight out– of what human beings have been from the moment they began? They are born of toil and molded from the clay of sorrow.They wander the world for a time, then set off.

They sat quietly together for a few minutes, Joe holding Fiona's hand, Fiona sniffling. No flowery words, no platitudes passed between them. Joe would have done anything to ease her suffering, but he knew nothing he might do, or say, could. Her grief would run its course, like a fever, and release her when it was spent. He would not shush her or tell her it was God's will and that her da was better off. That was rubbish and they both knew it. When something hurt as bad as this, you had to let it hurt. There were no shortcuts.

Jennifer Donnelly

And like that, I said goodbye to my grandmother like we were two people who met in a coffee shop, shared a lifetime of stories and left wanting more, but knowing we’d meet there again.

Darnell Lamont Walker

I can still hear the screams. They wake me in the night. Terrible, gut wrenching, painful screams; screams that can only come from the deepest and darkest recesses of the mind. These were not screams of pain. These were screams of years of sorrow and despair. These were screams that made your skin crawl. These were the worst screams I have ever heard. I cannot get them out of my head. Perhaps, they will be with me forever. I shouldn't be so lucky.

Jamie Schoffman

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance. In the fair city of this vision, there were airy galleries from which the loves and graces looked upon him, gardens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of Hope that sparkled in his sight. A moment and it was gone. Climbing to a high chamber in a well of houses, he threw himself down in his clothes on a neglected bed, and its pillow was wet with wasted tears.

Charles Dickens

You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.

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