Sorrow Quotes

"What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again."
-Abraham Lincoln

"I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched."
-Virgil

"To revive sorrow is cruel."
-Sophocles

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

"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim."
-Ann Landers

"If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand."
-Confucius

"Shared sorrow is half sorrow."
-Danish Proverb

"No one is exempt from grief."
-Gregory Maguire

"Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety."
-Anatole Broyard

"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling."
-Frida Kahlo

"Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel."
-Lucy Parsons

"For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow."
-Orson Scott Card

"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is."
-Yoda

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow."
-William Shakespeare

"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief."
-William Shakespeare

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
-William Shakespeare

"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."
-Seneca

"Partying is such sweet sorrow."
-Robert Byrne

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
-Chinese Proverb

"It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life."
-George W. Bush

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable memories."
-George Eliot

"Childhood has no forebodings, but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
-George Eliot

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
-George Eliot

"But as in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment."
-Thomas C. Haliburton

"In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?"
-David Mamet