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 ~
It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
~By John Dryden ~
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~By Washington Irving ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.
~By George William Curtis ~
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
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 ~
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
~By Robert Byrne ~
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 ~
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
~By John A. Logan ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
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 ~
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
~By William Blake ~
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 ~
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
~By Saint Augustine ~
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 ~
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
~By Ovid ~
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
~By Albert Pike ~
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 ~
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
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 ~
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 ~
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
~By Rene Descartes ~
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
~By Fanny Burney ~
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
~By A. C. Benson ~
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 ~
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
~By John Webster ~
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 ~
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
~By William Davenant ~
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 ~
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
~By Charles Dickens ~
Genius is sorrow's child.
~By John Adams ~
I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
~By Sara Teasdale ~
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
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 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 ~
I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.
~By Franz Liszt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 ~
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
~By Peter S. Beagle ~
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.
~By Holbrook Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
~By Steven Tyler ~
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 ~
Patience is sorrow's salve.
~By Charles Churchill ~
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 ~
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 ~
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
~By Francis J. Braceland ~
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
~By Francois de Malherbe ~
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
~By Ernest Renan ~
However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.
~By Joseph Butler ~
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 ~
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
~By Jean Ingelow ~
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
~By John Fletcher ~
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
~By Confucius ~
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
~By Stefan Kanfer ~
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.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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 heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
~By Li Po ~
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
~By Greta Garbo ~
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 ~
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
~By Robert Frost ~
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