Quotes about sorrow

Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.

— Bible

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

— William Blake

Some say that happiness is not good for mortals, and they ought to be answered that sorrow is not fit for immortals and is utterly useless to any one; a blight never does good to a tree, and if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.

— William Blake

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

— William Blake

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

The busy have no time for tears.

— Lord Byron

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

— Lord Byron

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.

— Marcus T. Cicero

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

— Marcus T. Cicero

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

— Arthur Hugh Clough

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

— Confucius

The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

— William Cowper

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.

— Emile Durkheim

Sorrow makes us children again.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.

— C. Fitzhugh

Sorrow has produced more melody than mirth.

— C. Fitzhugh

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

— Washington Irving

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.

— George Holbrook Jackson

Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

— Samuel Johnson

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

— Samuel Johnson

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

— Comte De Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

— Stephen B. Leacock

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

— Larry Mcmurtry

Sorrow is easy to express and so hard to tell.

— Joni Mitchell

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

— Sean O'Casey

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

— Ovid

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

— Jean Paul

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

— Jean Paul Richter

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

— Barbara Sher

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.

— Freya Stark

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

— J. August Strindberg

The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.

— The Talmud

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

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

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

— Steven Tyler

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.

— Simone Weil

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

— Oscar Wilde

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

— Antonio Porchia

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.

— Samuel Johnson

Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

— Dorothy Parker

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

— William Shakespeare

To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.

— Emily Dickinson

Oh world, hear this, the streams of love ends in the salty ocean! My Lord, I wish to rise from this salt!

— Source Unknown