quotations about sorrow
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Time is the physician of every sorrow.
EUPHRON
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?
ALFRED TENNYSON
In Memoriam
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
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
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
Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.
JOHN WEBSTER
The Duchess of Malfi
Sorrows are like thunderclouds--in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
Hesperus
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth
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
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
Persian Song
Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.
PETE ABRAMS
Sluggy Freelance, December 22, 2017
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
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all, and to the young it comes with bittered agony because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to expect it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
letter to Fanny McCullough, December 23, 1862