SORROW QUOTES V

quotations about sorrow

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

JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Hesperus


Sorrow wrings the sad soul, and bends it down to earth.

HORACE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk


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

Along the Road


I know
If we touched
We'd lose
Our sorrow

SPAIN

"If We Kissed"


It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.

PETE ABRAMS

Sluggy Freelance, December 22, 2017

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One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Pericles, Prince of Tyre


Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.

KUNCHACKO BOBAN

"Two decades of Kunchacko Boban", onmanorama, August 9, 2017


The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

HORACE

Epistles


Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

JOHN WEBSTER

The Duchess of Malfi


I found more joy in sorrow
Than you could find in joy.

SARA TEASDALE

The Answer


Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

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The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

PHILIP SIDNEY

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

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Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

Persian Song

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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

ÉMILE ZOLA

La Bête Humaine

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In my time of sorrow,
In my time of feeling bad
Oh what I'd give
Just to relive
All of the good times that I've had.

MARIANNE FAITHFUL

"In My Time of Sorrow"


Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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It is with men as with trees: if you lop off their finest branches, into which they were pouring their young life-juice, the wounds will be healed over with some rough boss, some odd excresence; and what might have been a grand tree expanding into liberal shade, is but a whimsical misshapen trunk. Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow, which has crushed and maimed the nature just when it was expanding into plenteous beauty; and the trivial erring life which we visit with our harsh blame, may be but as the unsteady motion of a man whose best limb is withered.

GEORGE ELIOT

Mr. Gilfil's Love Story


Ah, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
Taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more night than day.

ALICE CARY

Don't Be Sorrowful, Darling