Sorrow famous quotes
03-24-2025
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
-- A. E. Housman -
If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.
-- A. R. Rahman -
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
-- A.J. Cronin -
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.
-- Aaron Hill -
Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.
-- Abby May Alcott -
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
-- Aberjhani -
To-day is ours; what do we fear? To-day is ours; we have it here. Let's treat it kindly, that it may Wish, at least, with us to stay. Let's banish business, banish sorrow; To the gods belong to-morrow.
-- Abraham Cowley -
Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
-- Adelaide Anne Procter -
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.
-- Adi Shankara -
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
-- Adi Shankara -
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.
-- Adoniram Judson Gordon -
To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..
-- Agatha Christie -
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
-- Al-Ghazali -
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
-- Alan Paton -
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
-- Alan Paton -
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
-- Albert Pike -
...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I suppose I'm interested in sorrow, which is very different from depression or despair. Sorrow is continuous with the world; it allows for creativity.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
-- Alexander Smith -
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
-- Alexandre Vinet -
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.
-- Alfred Adler -
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
-- Alfred de Musset -
Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
When I hear that a friend has fallen into matrimony, I feel the same sorrow as if I had heard of his lapsing into theism.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
I have noticed that after a time of deep sorrow the greatest comfort may come from a person you do not know well.
-- Alice Adams -
Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow." -Hem at Zelika's grave
-- Alison Croggon -
There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.
-- Alissa York -
EARTH LIFE with its joys and sorrows is a necessary part of our eternal existence. Its purposes are to prepare us to return to the presence of our Heavenly Father and to provide the way whereby we may receive a fulness of joy.
-- Alma P Burton -
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.
-- Amelia Barr -
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
-- Amelia Barr -
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
-- Amelia Josephine Burr -
Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.
-- Amin Maalouf -
My testimony has been my anchor and my stay, my satisfaction in times of joy and gladness, my comfort in times of sorrow and discouragement.
-- Amy B. Lyman -
When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
-- Amy Hempel -
too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
-- Amy Tan -
Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?
-- Andrei Platonov -
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
-- Andrew Greeley -
Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
-- Ann Radcliffe -
Sorrow has its life just like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it's dead and gone, someone's left behind to remember it. Exactly like people.
-- Anne Holm -
I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time of flowers, and music, and love, and laughter, and ecstatic tears.
-- Anne Reeve Aldrich -
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.
-- Anne Rice -
Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.
-- Arthur Hopkins -
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 -
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.
-- Arthur Symons -
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.
-- August Strindberg -
Lack of knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or fully active.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
-- Barbara Sher -
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
-- Basil Hume -
There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
-- Beatrice Wood -
Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
-- Bede Jarrett -
Sorrow is not sickness-unless it becomes a permanent state of mental ill-health. The point is there are indeed stages of grief, as all the therapists tell us, but they do not obey some great unseen timetable.
-- Bel Mooney -
... wore sorrow and anger like a worn-out coat and would not throw it away.
-- Belva Plain -
As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal ...
-- Bess Streeter Aldrich -
Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.
-- Betty MacDonald -
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.
-- Bill Withers -
In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim
-- Bono -
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.
-- Bruce Lee -
There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.
-- C. Scott Grow -
More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.
-- Callimachus -
There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal.
-- Carolina Nairne -
I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow.
-- Catherine Fisher -
The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.
-- Chanakya -
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
-- Charles Bukowski -
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
-- Charles Dickens -
It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.
-- Charles Henry Mackintosh -
Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do, and therefore the burden of His undertaking came upon Him in a heavier, wider, and more crushing way than it can come upon us; and therefore, while it overwhelmed Him in sorrow, our smaller mission and lighter task can with entire propriety leave us buoyant and gladsome.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
-- Charles Kuralt -
There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Go, forget me! why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me, and to-morrow Brightly smile and sweetly sing! Smile,—though I shall not be near thee; Sing,—though I shall never hear thee!
-- Charles Wolfe -
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
