quotations about sorrow
I found more joy in sorrow
Than you could find in joy.
SARA TEASDALE
The Answer
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
They say my tears come from the bottle that stands beside me all the time
But I wonder if they know the sorrow that always overtakes the wine
PORTER WAGONER
"Sorrow Overtakes the Wine"
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Norwegian Wood
Joy may be a miser,
But Sorrow's purse is free.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD
Persian Song
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth
My old sorrow wakes and cries.
JEAN INGELOW
Song of Old Love
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Table-Talk
The burdens of life I'll take up now,
But never my heart will they stain.
If sorrows of earth fit me for heaven,
No reason have I to complain.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"No Reason Have We to Complain"
Where sorrow lieth buried
The greenest herbage springs.
CAROLINE SPENCER
"Afterward"
Happiness is valued only when sorrow is tasted.
KUNCHACKO BOBAN
"Two decades of Kunchacko Boban", onmanorama, August 9, 2017
I know
If we touched
We'd lose
Our sorrow
SPAIN
"If We Kissed"
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY
Festus
One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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
When sorrows come, they come not single spies,
But in battalions.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet
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
Sorrow's tearing down the house that happiness once built.
DOLLY PARTON
"Sorrow's Tearing Down the House"
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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