SORROW QUOTES V

quotations about sorrow

One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Pericles, Prince of Tyre


Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


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

SARA TEASDALE

The Answer


When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

ÉMILE ZOLA

La Bête Humaine

Tags: Emile Zola


Time is the physician of every sorrow.

EUPHRON

attributed, Day's Collacon


The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

HORACE

Epistles


It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

Tags: Madame Swetchine


I know
If we touched
We'd lose
Our sorrow

SPAIN

"If We Kissed"


I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me.

ROBERT BROWNING HAMILTON

Along the Road


Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.

KUNCHACKO BOBAN

"Two decades of Kunchacko Boban", onmanorama, August 9, 2017


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

JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Hesperus


Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

JOHN WEBSTER

The Duchess of Malfi


Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.

RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

Persian Song

Tags: Richard Henry Stoddard


Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Macbeth

Tags: William Shakespeare


Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Tags: Henry Ward Beecher


Men die, but sorrow never dies;
The crowding years divide in vain,
And the wide world is knit with ties
Of common brotherhood in pain.

SUSAN COOLIDGE

The Cradle Tomb in Westminster Abbey


Times lose no time; nor do they roll idly by; through our senses they work strange operations on the mind. Behold, they went and came day by day, and by coming and going, introduced into my mind other imaginations and other remembrances; and little by little patched me up again with my old kind of delights, unto which that my sorrow gave way.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Confessions

Tags: St. Augustine


The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

PHILIP SIDNEY

The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Tags: Philip Sidney


Deeper I'm falling
Into the arms of sorrow
Blindly descending
Into the arms of sorrow
There must be serenity
There must be deliverance
Deeper I'm falling
Blindly descending
Deeper I'm falling

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

"The Arms of Sorrow"


Ah, don't be sorrowful, darling,
And don't be sorrowful, pray;
Taking the year together, my dear,
There isn't more night than day.

ALICE CARY

Don't Be Sorrowful, Darling