The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
~By A. C. Benson ~
Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.
~By Francois de Malherbe ~
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
~By Thomas More ~
Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.
~By William Gilmore Simms ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
~By Alfred de Musset ~
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 ~
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 ~
If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
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 ~
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
~By Ann Landers ~
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 ~
Cast away care, he that loves sorrow Lengthens not a day, nor can buy tomorrow; Money is trash, and he that will spend it, Let him drink merrily, fortune will send it.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
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 ~
The saloon is a liar. It promises good cheer and sends sorrow.
~By Billy Sunday ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
~By Eudora Welty ~
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
~By Alexandre Vinet ~
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
~By Fay Weldon ~
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 ~
The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
~By Barbara Sher ~
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 ~
I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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 ~
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
~By Washington Irving ~
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 ~
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 ~
Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
~By Goran Persson ~
What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?
~By Thomas Kempis ~
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Genius is sorrow's child.
~By John Adams ~
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 ~
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 ~
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
~By Corrie Ten Boom ~
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 ~
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 ~
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
~By Greta Garbo ~
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 held the eldest child of sin.
~By John Webster ~
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
~By David Hume ~
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
~By Confucius ~
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 ~
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 ~
The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.
~By Thomas Campbell ~
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 ~
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
~By Helen Hunt Jackson ~
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~By Emily Bronte ~
My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
~By Mason Cooley ~
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
~By Steven Tyler ~
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 ~
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
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 ~
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
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 ~
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow.
~By John Fletcher ~
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
~By Jean Paul ~
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
~By Amelia Barr ~
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year.
~By John A. Logan ~
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 ~
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
~By John Strachan ~
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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 ~
Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
~By Jean Paul ~
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 ~
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
~By William Blake ~
The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
~By Ovid ~
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 ~
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 ~
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
~By Nikolai Gogol ~
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 ~
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.
~By Jessamyn West ~
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.
~By Fanny Burney ~
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 ~
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 ~
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
~By Franz Schubert ~
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 ~
Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
~By Franz Liszt ~
Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
~By Karl Amadeus Hartmann ~
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
~By Mark Twain ~
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 ~
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