quotations about sorrow
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Die Natürliche Tochter
Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.
FRANÇOIS DE MALHERBE
To Cardinal Richelieu
Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them;
For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them.
JOHN WEBSTER
The Duchess of Malfi
Sorrow made you,
Yeah,
In the bottom of the dark dead sea.
GAZETTE
"The Invisible Wall"
How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.
HORATIUS BONAR
attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain--
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor start.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
"Sorrow"
There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.
E. M. FORSTER
A Room with a View
Sorrow turns the stars into mourners, and every wind of heaven into a dirge.
DAVID HANNAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams;
And sorrow tracketh wrong,
As echo follows song.
HARRIET MARTINEAU
Hymn
A scrap of sorrow, like a bird, lights on the heart.
I carry this in my body, seed
in an unswept corner, husk-encowled and seeming safe.
But they guard me, these small pains,
from growing sure
of myself and perhaps forgetting.
JANE HIRSHFIELD
"To Hear the Falling World"
Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet
Lay down your sorrows,
Let me carry them awhile
Cast off your sadness,
And I'll lend you a smile
You've traveled such a long way
Searchin' for the light
Lay down your sorrows
And lay with me tonight
JOHNNY WINTER
"Lay Down Your Sorrows"
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green,
Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Adonais
Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Island
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A Defence of Poetry
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Anger
Misery
You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
METALLICA
"Harverster of Sorrow"