SORROW QUOTES II

quotations about sorrow

Sorrow quote

Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness.

ADONIRAM JUDSON GORDON

"The Sighs of Jesus", Grace and Glory: Sermons for the Life that Now is and that which is to Come


The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, -- the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Table-Talk


All this joy, all this sorrow
All this promise, all this pain
Such is life, such is being
Such is spirit, such is love

JOHN DENVER

"All This Joy"


Hang sorrow, care 'll kill a cat.

BEN JONSON

Every Man in his Humour

Tags: Ben Jonson


Our comforts come from God; our sorrows, from ourselves.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

Tags: Ivan Panin


Whate'er there be of Sorrow
I'll put off till To-morrow,
And when To-morrow comes, why then
'T will be To-day and Joy again.

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

"The Word", Songs of Cheer

Tags: John Kendrick Bangs


Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tags: Tennessee Williams


I am grieved at your sorrow, although it will hereafter be a source of joy unto you. The purest water runs from the hardest rock.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Imaginary Conversations

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I love the friendly faces of old sorrows;
I have no secrets that they do not know.

KARLE WILSON BAKER

Burning Bush

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Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutterball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

STEPHEN KING

Carrie

Tags: Stephen King


Sorrow is one of the gifts which folly has earned for itself.

CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH DANIEL SCHUBART

attributed, Day's Collacon


How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! It makes felicity in others seem deformed.

WILLIAM DAVENANT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Sorrow like rain makes roses and mud.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


A sorrow's crown of sorrow
Is remembering happier things.

ALFRED TENNYSON

Locksley Hall


The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

EUDORA WELTY

"The Wide Net"

Tags: Eudora Welty


Sorrow is an evil with many feet.

POSIDIPPUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age: youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

O. HENRY

"The Count and the Wedding Guest"

Tags: O. Henry


Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

NAOMI SHIHAB NYE

Words Under the Words


There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men -- and God knows why they are so fashioned -- did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


That thorny path, those stormy skies,
Have drawn our spirits nearer;
And rendered us, by sorrow's ties,
Each to the other dearer.

BERNARD BARTON

Not Ours the Vows

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