William Blake Sorrow Quotations

Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.

Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?

Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!

Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share?

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, & they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals & is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.