quotations about sorrow
What an insidious drug memory can be. Especially the memory of unhappiness.
HORACE HOLLEY
His Luck
One drop of sorrow heals the troubled heart
More than a thousand tongues of consolation.
ROBERT LEIGHTON
"At the Grave of Margaret"
He has great gain who loses sorrow.
URIEL ACOSTA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Thou canst not tell how rich a dowry sorrow gives the soul, how firm a faith and eagle sight of God.
HENRY ALFORD
The School of the Heart
Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
ALFRED TENNYSON
In Memoriam
In sorrow and in suffering are hidden the springs of a peace and a power that can be affected by no outward storms. It is a great thing, when one has grown strong through that trial which melts away the dross and proves the true gold; when, being driven to the handling of many expedients, he has been trained to detect all counterfeit comforts, and to discriminate between unsubstantial good and that which abides every test; when he has learned to dispense with all outward props, can let riches, honors, health drop away from him, and yet feel that all this does not touch his real life; while above these coils of uncertainty and mutation he lifts his naked personality erect in its own spiritual resources. Surely, prosperity has never generated such depths of power, such intrinsic and full consolation.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
Sorrow is the result of a shock, it is the temporary shaking up of a mind that has settled down, that has accepted the routine of life. Something happens in the event of death, the loss of a job, the questioning of a cherished belief -- and the mind is disturbed. But what does a disturbed mind do? It finds a way to be undisturbed again; it takes refuge in another belief, in a more secure job, in a new relationship. Again the wave of life comes along and shatters its safeguards, but the mind soon finds further defenses; and so it goes on.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
"Recognise difference between intellect and intelligence", The New Indian Express, August 5, 2017
Sorrow wrings the sad soul, and bends it down to earth.
HORACE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
HORACE
Epistles
Lord, have pity on me. My evil sorrows strive with my good joys; and on which side is the victory, I know not.
ST. AUGUSTINE
Confessions
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
Sorrows are like thunderclouds--in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Hesperus
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
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
Time is the physician of every sorrow.
EUPHRON
attributed, Day's Collacon
When sorrow sleepeth, wake it not,
But let it slumber on.
M. A. STODART
Song
The echoes of my voice
Follow me down
The shadows I cast
Follow me down
Deeper I'm falling
Into the arms of sorrow
Blindly descending
Into the arms of sorrow
The demons of my own design
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
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