SORROW QUOTES V

quotations about sorrow

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


Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk


Time is the physician of every sorrow.

EUPHRON

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Pericles, Prince of Tyre


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

JEAN PAUL RICHTER

Hesperus


Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.

KUNCHACKO BOBAN

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


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

HORACE

Epistles


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


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

SARA TEASDALE

The Answer


Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.

PETE ABRAMS

Sluggy Freelance, December 22, 2017

Tags: Pete Abrams


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


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


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


In my time of sorrow,
In my time of feeling bad
Oh what I'd give
Just to relive
All of the good times that I've had.

MARIANNE FAITHFUL

"In My Time of Sorrow"


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

ÉMILE ZOLA

La Bête Humaine

Tags: Emile Zola


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


Ah done been in sorrow's kitchen and Ah done licked out all de pots. Ah done died in grief and been buried in de bitter waters, and Ah done rose agin from de dead lak Lazarus.

ZORA NEALE HURSTON

Jonah's Gourd Vine

Tags: Zora Neale Hurston