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 ~
'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 ~
Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.
~By Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
~By John Webster ~
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.
~By Jack Abramoff ~
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~By Washington Irving ~
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
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 ~
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
~By Francois de Malherbe ~
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.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
~By Jack Kerouac ~
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 ~
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
~By Hesiod ~
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
~By William Blake ~
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.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.
~By Josh Billings ~
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.
~By Thomas Hooker ~
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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.
~By Harriet Ann Jacobs ~
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
~By Herman Melville ~
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
~By Isaac Mayer Wise ~
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 ~
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
~By David Hume ~
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
~By Amelia Barr ~
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
~By Fay Weldon ~
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 ~
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
~By Ovid ~
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
~By Greta Garbo ~
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 ~
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
~By Peter S. Beagle ~
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
~By Franz Liszt ~
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~By Francis J. Braceland ~
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.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
~By William Blake ~
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
~By Jean Paul ~
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
~By Victor Hugo ~
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
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 ~
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.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
~By Andrei Platonov ~
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 ~
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 ~
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
~By Robert Byrne ~
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 ~
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 ~
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Patience is sorrow's salve.
~By Charles Churchill ~
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
~By George William Curtis ~
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.
~By Thomas Campbell ~
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
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.
~By Shigeru Yoshida ~
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
~By John Strachan ~
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~By Eudora Welty ~
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 ~
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
~By Charles Dickens ~
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.
~By Basil C. Hume ~
Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.
~By Chris Christie ~
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
~By Mason Cooley ~
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
~By Washington Irving ~
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 ~
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
~By Sophocles ~
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
~By Rene Descartes ~
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
~By Nikolai Gogol ~
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
~By Ann Landers ~
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
~By Fanny Burney ~
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
~By Franz Schubert ~
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
~By Saadi ~
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
~By Steven Tyler ~
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 ~
We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
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.
~By Voltaire ~
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 ~
Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.
~By Leon Redbone ~
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 ~
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Richard Barnfield ~
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
~By William Davenant ~
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
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