Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
~By Ovid ~
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.
~By Charles Wolfe ~
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
~By Walter de La Mare ~
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
~By Jean Paul ~
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
~By Saadi ~
'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
~By Edward Moore ~
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
~By A. C. Benson ~
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.
~By Joseph Butler ~
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!
~By Laurence Sterne ~
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
~By Giacomo Leopardi ~
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
~By Freya Stark ~
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
~By Lord Byron ~
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
~By Amelia Barr ~
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.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
~By Arthur Hugh Clough ~
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
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.
~By Sophocles ~
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
~By Jean Paul ~
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~By Lao Tzu ~
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
~By George William Curtis ~
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
~By William Davenant ~
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.
~By Greta Garbo ~
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
~By Li Po ~
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
~By Stefan Kanfer ~
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.
~By Samuel Butler ~
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.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
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.
~By Vladimir Mayakovsky ~
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
~By Franz Liszt ~
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.
~By Emma Goldman ~
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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
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.
~By Chanakya ~
When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.
~By Franz Schubert ~
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
~By Peter S. Beagle ~
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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.
~By George William Russell ~
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.
~By Simone Weil ~
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.
~By Walter Pater ~
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.
~By Lydia M. Child ~
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
~By Amelia Barr ~
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
~By Agatha Christie ~
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
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.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~By Eudora Welty ~
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.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
~By Frida Kahlo ~
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
~By Andrei Platonov ~
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
Genius is sorrow's child.
~By John Adams ~
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~By Francis J. Braceland ~
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
~By Honore De Balzac ~
Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
~By Goran Persson ~
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
~By Hesiod ~
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.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
~By Victor Hugo ~
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
~By Ann Landers ~
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
~By John Strachan ~
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
~By David Hume ~
We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
~By Rose Schneiderman ~
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.
~By Jim Cole ~
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
~By David Hume ~
Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.
~By Robert Greene ~
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
~By John A. Logan ~
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
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.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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.
~By Leo Szilard ~
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
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.
~By Clarissa Pinkola Estes ~
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
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.
~By Henry Ossawa Tanner ~
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