SORROW QUOTES V

quotations about sorrow


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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
My old sorrow wakes and cries.

JEAN INGELOW
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Song of Old Love


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Tags: Jean Ingelow


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"


Love sorrow. She is yours now, and you must take care of what has been given. Brush her hair, help her into her little coat, hold her hand, especially when crossing a street. For, think, what if you should lose her? Then you would be sorrow yourself; her drawn face, her sleeplessness would be yours. Take care, touch her forehead that she feel herself not so utterly alone.

MARY OLIVER

"Love Sorrow", Red Bird: Poems

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The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

HORACE

Epistles


Can calm despair and wild unrest
Be tenants of a single breast,
Or sorrow such a changeling be?

ALFRED TENNYSON

In Memoriam

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

Tags: Henry Ward Beecher


Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

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In my time of sorrow,
In my time of feeling bad
Oh what I'd give
Just to relive
All of the good times that I've had.

MARIANNE FAITHFUL

"In My Time of Sorrow"


Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

JOHN WEBSTER

The Duchess of Malfi


Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.

SENECA

Hippolytus

Tags: Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Island

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All sorrows are less with bread.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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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 know
If we touched
We'd lose
Our sorrow

SPAIN

"If We Kissed"


Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.

FRANÇOIS DE MALHERBE

To Cardinal Richelieu


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

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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

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When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

ÉMILE ZOLA

La Bête Humaine

Tags: Emile Zola


Where sorrow lieth buried
The greenest herbage springs.

CAROLINE SPENCER

"Afterward"

Tags: Caroline Spencer


Sorrow comes in great waves ... but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot, and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. It wears us, uses us, but we wear it and use it in return; and it is blind, whereas we after a manner see.

HENRY JAMES

letter to Miss Grace Norton, July 28, 1883

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