Sorrow Quotations

Our days and nights have sorrows woven with delights.

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

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.

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.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

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.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

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.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

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

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

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.

I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

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.

I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.

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.

Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

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.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

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

When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.

Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

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.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

Since I was a little girl, I have witnessed the strength and courage that energized my mother, who left every sorrow and pain in the past, who would work unyieldingly to obtain her goals, who was the great warrior from whom I learned all the values that are today fundamental pillars of my every day.

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.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.

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.

I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

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.

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.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

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!

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

Think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross... It was a Friday filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored the Son of God.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

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!

There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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.

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.

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.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.

Yes, but it's my life has been wasted, And I have been the fool, To let this manufacturer use my body for a tool, I can ride home in the evening, Staring at my hands, Swearing by my sorrow that a young girl, Ought to stand a better chance, So may I w

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight, and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.