SORROW QUOTES
quotations about sorrow
Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
Never try to drown your sorrows if she can swim.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Nobody knows my sorrow
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Glory, Hallelujah
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
"Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen"
Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the Christ risen.
MOTHER TERESA
A Gift for God
Joy, being altogether wanting,
It doth remember me the more of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II
The easiest and simplest way to deal with sorrow is to remember that nothing is permanent.
SWAMI SWAROOPANANDA
"Manage your sorrows", The Economic Times, April 25, 2017
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 to have recovered hope.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
Life's joys and sorrows meet us every day,
But some are blinded by their tears of sorrow
And see no joy.
S. MOORE
"Sonnet"
Sorrow does not predicate annihilation, but development. There is compensation in all things around us. There must be in this experience. The real counterstroke to the pulse of mortal anguish is not the full stop of death, but the vibration of immortality.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Enjoy the beauty. When Miss Joy enters, welcome her charming company but don't try to stop her; she is beautiful, but fickle. Let her go; don't lock the door; because Mr Sorrow is coming. Welcome him with open doors lest he breaks the windows. He is not very popular. He stays a little longer. Offer him a mug of beer. He goes; Miss Joy is returning. But give her a glass of diet coke!
SWAMI SWAROOPANANDA
"Manage your sorrows", The Economic Times, April 25, 2017
Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hyperion
He who has most of heart, knows most of sorrow.
P. J. BAILEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they'd learned to swim
U2
"Until the End of the World"
It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.
SUE MONK KIDD
The Secret Life of Bees
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
GEORGE ELIOT
Adam Bede
A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table-Talk
Joy's recollection is no longer joy,
While Sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.
LORD BYRON
Marino Faliero
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
THOMAS MOORE
"Come Ye Disconsolate"
Sorrow rightly used may often give insight, forcing the mind to think and the eye to see; just as disease may read us many a lesson.
HUGH BLACK
Happiness